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Belgium
Capital city — Brussels
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
i01/03/2024Country population
i01/01/2023/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.Type of government
Human Development Index
0.937(13/190)
i2021/ UNDP, Human Development Report (01-01-2021)Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
i2020/ Statista, Eurostat (01-01-2020)Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Total number of prisoners
i01/03/2024Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
i2022/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 31.Prison density
114.6 %The Belgium priso…
i01/03/2024Total number of prison facilities
39including two det…
i11/2022An NPM has been established
Female prisoners
i31/01/2023/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 7a.Incarcerated minors
i2021/ Council of Europe, SPACE I - 2021 Report, 19 avril 2022, p. 44, table 7.Percentage of untried prisoners
i31/01/2023/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 8.Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1996The death penalty…
Acronyms
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AGAJ Youth Welfare General Administration (Administration générale de l’aide à la jeunesse), in Wallonia
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ASBL - Non-profit organisation (associations sans but lucratif)
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CAAP - Concertation des associations actives en prison
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CAPREV - Centre for Help and Support for Anyone Concerned by Extremism and Violent Radicalism (Centre d’aide et de prise en charge de toute personne concernée par les extrémismes et radicalismes violents)
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CAW - Centre for General Welfare (Centrum Algemeen Welzijswerk)
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CCMD - Centre communautaire pour mineurs dessaisis
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CCSP - Central Prison Monitoring Council (Conseil central de surveillance pénitentiaire)
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CdP - Complaints Commission (Commissions des plaintes)
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CdS - Monitoring Commission (Commissions de surveillance)
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ECHR - European Court of Human Rights
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CellMade - Régie du travail pénitentiaire
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CFPP - Training Centre for Penitentiary Staff (Centre de formation du personnel pénitentiaire)
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CMC - Medical-surgical centre (centre médico-chirurgical)
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CP - Temporary prison leave (congés pénitentiaires)
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CPAS - Public Welfare Centre (centre public d’action sociale)
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CPE - Penitentiary Educational Centre (Centres pénitentiaires école)
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CPL - Forensic Psychiatric Centres (Centres de psychiatrie légale)
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CPT - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
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DBFM - Design, Build, Finance, Maintain
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DGD - Direction Detention Management (Direction gestion de la détention)
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DGEPI - General Office of Penitentiary Establishments (Direction générale des établissements pénitentiaires)
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DL - Limited detention (détention limitée)
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EDS - Social Defence Facility (établissement de défense sociale)
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EM Electronic Monitoring
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FAMD - Foundation for Moral Assistance to Prisoners (Fondation pour l’assistance morale aux détenus)
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Forem - Public Service for Employment and Vocational Training in Wallonia (Office wallon de la formation professionnelle et de l’emploi)
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FPS Federal Public Service
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IP - interruption of the execution of the prison sentence (interruption de l’exécution de la peine)
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KCE - Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (Centre fédéral d’expertise des soins de santé)
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LC - Conditional release (libération conditionnelle)
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LDH - Belgian League for Human Rights (Ligue des droits humains)
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LPRM - Provisional release on medical grounds (libération provisoire pour raisons médicales)
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NPM – National Preventive Mechanism
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MSP - Specific security measure (mesure de sécurité particulière)
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OCPP - Training Centre for Dutch-Speaking Penitentiary Staff (Opleidingscentra voor Penitentiair Personeel)
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OIP Belgique - Belgian section of the International Prison Observatory (Observatoire international des prisons section belge)
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ONE - Office of Birth and Childhood (Office de la naissance et de l’enfance)
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OPCAT - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
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PEP - child-parent support (partenaires enfants-parents)
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PPP - public-private partnerships (partenariats public-privé)
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PS - Day release permissions de sortie occasionnelle
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RIS - Social Integration Income (revenu d’intégration sociale)
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RSPI - Specific individual security regime (régime de sécurité particulier individuel)
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SAD - Prisoner Support Service (Services d’aide aux détenus)
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SDS - Social Defence Sections (sections de défense sociale)
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SPS - Psychosocial service (Service psychosocial)
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TAP - Sentence Enforcement Court (Tribunal de l’application des peines)
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VDAB - Flemish Employment and Vocational Training Service (Vlaamse Dienst voor Arbeidsbemiddeling en Beroepsopleiding)