Two invoices: detention vs community
What does one day of youth detention cost, what does one day of community supervision cost, and what does each buy?
Where this is up to · updated 2026-07-31
Gate 6 of 6 · PublishedThe figures
$3,635 vs $424 national per-day average, all states, ROGS 2024-25
The visual story
national receipts format built and reviewed
Facility-to-programs pairing
community programs within reach of each of 21 facilities
Annual refresh hook
re-runs on each ROGS release
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Data sources
Report on Government Services 2026, ch.17 · tables 17A.20 and 17A.21, quoted unmodified annual
Method, in plain words
Figures are the Productivity Commission's own, quoted, never modelled. A visible caveat explains what the comparison can and cannot say.
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