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 financial year figures on the average daily population of prisoners and the number of receptions. This information is disaggregated by age, gender, sentence type, sentence length and main crime. A new table has been introduced to show information on prisoners released on home detention curfew. We have also expanded the tables on the prison population and liberations by community justice authorities ( CJA) to show individual local authorities ( LA). 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
