The inventory
What we hold.
Grouped by the question it answers rather than the table it sits in, because nobody outside this codebase wants to know how many rows are in a table. They want to know whether we can tell them something true, and how far to trust it.
Every number below carries two things a count cannot: whose permission it needs, and a link to the page that says what is wrong with it.
Who is doing the work
Organisations
104,426
Every organisation we can find working around youth justice, from the public charity, corporation and business registers.
From public registers, which makes holding them lawful rather than consented. Almost none has claimed its own record.
Aboriginal-controlled, on a register
1,815
Organisations whose community control rests on ORIC registration, Supply Nation certification, or an Indigenous charity registration.
Aboriginal-controlled, on our reading of a name
21
Organisations we flagged by inferring identity from the organisation’s name, where no register has since agreed.
We should not be the ones deciding this. It is published so it can be argued with, and it shrinks as each one is reviewed.
People in public roles
339,698
Directorships and office-holders from the public registers. Who runs what, and what else they run.
Public, but personal. Volume is not a licence, and we do not publish these as profiles.
Where it happens
Justice reinvestment communities
42
Every community-led justice reinvestment initiative we can find, funded or not. The Commonwealth program counts up to 30; this counts a movement.
Community records published by their community
0
Records released by the community they describe, through a gate that has no administrator override.
This is the number that matters most and it is zero. Everything else here was gathered by us; this one requires somebody else to say yes.
Map pins verified against a source
4
Coordinates that have been checked rather than assumed. Others are marked as a town centre standing in, or cleared entirely.
Zero, because earning it means checking one at a time. Place is also inferred from a registered address, which undercounts remote communities.
What it costs, and who paid
Funding records
157,116
Government grants and contracts for justice-related work, from federal and state disclosure across two decades.
Some sources record the same money at different granularities. Where they overlap we report them separately rather than adding them.
Government service expenditure rows
19,096
The Report on Government Services: what each jurisdiction spends on detention and on community supervision.
The source behind $2.20 of detention for every $1 of community-based supervision. An earlier draft said fifty-five to one and was withdrawn.
Whether it works
Verified alternatives
1,741
Programs and services operating instead of detention, excluding anything machine-generated.
Evidence records
631
Evaluations, studies and reports attached to programs.
Community impact figures, keyed
125
Figures about what justice reinvestment communities have achieved, each with a source, in a shared vocabulary so they can be compared.
Sourced is not agreed. Roughly half carry no usable number, because the source hedged and we kept its words.
Media coverage
692
News articles about programs, communities and policy.
Seventy-six fabricated articles were found in this table and are held back from every surface.
Parliamentary record
630
Hansard, tabled papers and questions on notice: what the state said, under obligation, on a date.
Relevance came from titles. The documents themselves are unread.
Storytellers
227
People who have shared a story, held in the Empathy Ledger and reached only through a consent-respecting interface.
Never read directly. Available only on the terms each person set, and revocable.
The number that matters is the small one
Everything on this page was gathered by us. One line required somebody else to say yes, and it reads zero. Until that changes, the rest is a well-kept library of other people’s records.