Experts concerned as numbers of unsentenced prisoners on remand in WA spikes

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Experts concerned as numbers of unsentenced prisoners on remand in WA spikes

A sharp rise in arrests for violent crimes, coupled with the housing crisis, is resulting in record numbers of unsentenced prisoners in WA jails, a situation experts say is unacceptable.

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released last month show in March this year there were 2750 WA prisoners in remand — that is people who have been arrested but have not been granted bail or sentenced by the court. That is a jump from just 2188 a year earlier.

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