Prisoner
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 399172 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 25/08/2011 |
Definition: | An adult (aged at least 18 years) who is held in custody and whose confinement is the responsibility of a correctional services agency. It includes sentenced prisoners and prisoners held in custody awaiting trial or sentencing (remandees). Juvenile offenders, persons in psychiatric custody, police cell detainees, those in periodic detention, asylum seekers or Australians held in overseas prisons are not included. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2010. The health of Australia's prisoners 2009. Cat. no. PHE 123. Canberra: AIHW. |
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Relational attributes | |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Person—prisoner health discharge summary indicator, yes/no code N Health!, Standard 25/08/2011 |
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