Uruguay

Capital city — Montevideo

Country population
3,480,222
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2017
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
330
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2017
/ National Institute of Statistics
Type of government
Presidential Democracy
Human Development Index
0.795
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Interior
Total number of prisoners
11,500
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2017
/ National Rehabilitation Institute
Prison density
115 %
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2016
/ Penitentiary Parliamentary Commissioner
Total number of prison facilities
29
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2017
An NPM has been established
Yes
created in 2008
Female prisoners
5 %
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2016
/ Annual report of the Penitentiary Parliamentary Commissioner
Percentage of untried prisoners
64 %
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2017
/ Office of Planning and Budget
Death penalty is abolished
Yes
since 1907

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Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

5 % (576)

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2016

/ Annual report of the Penitentiary Parliamentary Commissioner

Untried prisoners

Percentage of untried prisoners

64 % (7,360)

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2017

/ Office of Planning and Budget

Death penalty prisoners

Death penalty is abolished

Yes

since 1907