Finland

Capital city — Helsinki

Country population
5,500,000
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2017
/ [ICPR]http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/finland2018
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
57
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2017
/ ICPR
Type of government
Parliamentary republic
Human Development Index
0.895
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
3,174
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2017
/ ICPR
Prison density
106 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
26
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2017
An NPM has been established
Yes
created in 2014
Female prisoners
7.6 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
20.7 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
Yes
since 1972

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Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

7.6 % (242)

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2017

/ ICPR

Untried prisoners

Percentage of untried prisoners

20.7 % (656)

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2017

/ ICPR

Death penalty prisoners

Death penalty is abolished

Yes

since 1972

Foreign prisoners

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

18.6 %

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2017

/ ICPR