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1. Introduction
This bulletin on Scottish prison statistics forms part of The Scottish Executive Justice Department series of bulletins on aspects of the criminal justice system.
We have continued to present figures on a financial year basis, going back to April 1996 when computerised records became available. The figures on the average daily population of prisoners and the number of receptions are disaggregated by age, gender, sentence type, sentence length and main crime. Some new tables have been introduced that show information on religion of prisoners in custody and population and liberations by community justice authorities ( CJA). Details on these changes are included in the Annex.
Detailed tables can be found in the Appendix and explanations of the terms and classifications used throughout the bulletin are provided in the Annex.
Chart 1 Average daily prison population, 20 th - 21 st Century, financial year data from 1996/97
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