Algeria

Capital city — Alger

Country population
39,300,000
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2014
/ World Prison Brief
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
155
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2014
/ ICPR
Type of government
Constitutional democracy, semi-presiden…
Human Development Index
0.745
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
61,000
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2014
/ ICPR
Prison density
89 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
131
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2013
An NPM has been established
No
Female prisoners
1.7 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
6.7 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
No, but abolitionist in practice
no execution sinc…

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Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

1.7 % (1,063)

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2014

/ ICPR

Untried prisoners

Percentage of untried prisoners

6.7 % (4,100)

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2014

/ ICPR

Death penalty prisoners

Death penalty is abolished

No, but abolitionist in practice

no execution since 1993

Foreign prisoners

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

3.2 %

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2014

/ ICPR