A total of 344 cases appeared on these lists from November 1991 to August 1992. It is possible to calculate the daily probability that an inmate will be found guilty of a disciplinary offence. There were 301 cases of disciplinary offences over the 10-month period. There are about 300 days in 10 months. Therefore, about one disciplinary offence is committed on average each day.
Disciplinary offences are therefore fairly rare.
This regulation sets out nine types of disciplinary offences, listed in the table below along with the number of reported cases by type. The 301 inmates who appeared before the disciplinary board committed 484 disciplinary infractions. There were 23 instances of physical violence between two inmates. The two types of disciplinary offences that occurred in less than 20 instances were not considered in the analysis of these data. The first variable of interest was the inmate's legal status.