There were twice as many assaults on prison officers by inmates over 2017-18.
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The Justice Department’s annual report, released on Thursday, showed officers were assaulted 18 times compared to seven times the year before.
Prisoners committed two incidences of serious assaults on officers last financial year.
As for prisoner-on-prisoner assaults, there were 79 incidences compared to 42 in 2016-17.
Just above 44 per cent of prisoners who were released in 2014-15 returned to jail two years later and 55 per cent received a new corrective sanction.
There were more drug treatment orders imposed by the courts in 2017-18 than the year before with 56 orders, but less than 2015-16 which had 66 drug treatment orders.
There were more probation orders imposed in 2017-18 than the prior two years of which 984 were completed and 35 revoked or cancelled.
There were also more parole orders imposed with 86 of them completed and 36 revoked.
Completion rates for the Community Corrections’ Sober Driving Program were the lowest of the past four years at 77 per cent.
The program, introduced in Tasmania in 2008, has found that offenders who complete the program are 40 per cent less likely to re-offend in two years.
Similarly, completion rates for participants in the Family Violence Offender Intervention Program had dropped as well with 55 of the 80 participants making it to the end.
The highest amount of participants were from the North.