A new reports reveals Western Australia has the second highest rate of female imprisonment in Australia and a shocking rate of Aboriginal woman in jail - almost 13 times higher than non-Indigenous imprisonment.
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The Productivity Commission report shows WA has a female imprisonment rate of 52.2 per 100,000 women.
That is double the rate in New South Wales and nearly triple the rate in Victoria.
"Given these figures it's no surprise that WA's main women's prison, Bandyup, has at times been overflowing," WA Prison Officers Union secretary John Welsh said.
"The inspector of Custodial Services and the Economic Regulation Authority have both agreed that Bandyup is the most overcrowded prison in the state and this is creating a dangerous environment for our prison officers."
The report also shows WA has the highest overall rate of incarceration of all the state, again bar the Northern Territory.
The state has an overall imprisonment rate of 271 per 100,000 adults, which is almost double that of other states including Victoria and Tasmania.
WA's Aboriginal incarceration rate is even higher than that in the Northern Territory, at 3,635 people per 100,000 adults.
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