Austria

Capital city — Vienna

Country population
8,820,000
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
94
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2017
/ ICPR
Type of government
Parliamentary republic
Human Development Index
0.893
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
8,290
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2017
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
27
An NPM has been established
Yes
created in 2012
Female prisoners
6.2 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
23.6 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
Yes
since 1968

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Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

6.2 % (514)

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2017

/ ICPR

Untried prisoners

Percentage of untried prisoners

23.6 % (1,954)

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2017

/ ICPR

Death penalty prisoners

Death penalty is abolished

Yes

since 1968

Foreign prisoners

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

54.2 %

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2017

/ ICPR