Number of women sentenced to jail in Queensland jumped 338%, with a third being Indigenous

Number of Queensland women sentenced to prison increased by 338% from 2005 to 2019, research shows. Indigenous women made up a third of those jailed. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

The number of women sentenced to prison in Queensland increased by a staggering 338% over the 14 years to 2019, with Aboriginal women making up a third of cases, according to a new report.

The number of women sentenced to imprisonment more than quadrupled from 485 cases in 2005 to 2,128 cases in 2019, according to the report “Engendering justice”, released on Wednesday by the Queensland sentencing advisory council.