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Türkiye: "Republic of prison campuses". The country has so many incarcerated people, 100,000 sleep on floor
The replacement of small prisons with large-complex prisons has led to apparent “progress” that is nothing of the kind.The number of prisons, home to a soaring prison population now the largest in Europe at more than 400,000 incarcerated people, fell from 524 in 2002 to 395 as of March 2025.
Source: intellinews (16/04/2025)