In 1998, 93 people died in police or prison custody. This total included 16 indigenous people (compared with 15 in 1997); among them four women and one juvenile (a 16-year-old Indigenous youth). Indigenous people were significantly overrepresented in the number of custodial deaths during 1998. In addition, Indigenous adults, who represent less than 2 percent of the national Australian population, constituted approximately 19 percent of the total prison population. Twenty-five percent of the police custody deaths were of Indigenous people. A longer-term trend revealed that, since 1980, the prison population increased by 76 percent, while the number of prison deaths increased by 150 percent. Tables, notes, figures, references