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Estonia

Capital city — Tallinn

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Country-profile

Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

3.9 % (89)
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19/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Percentage of untried female prisoners

17.3 % (19)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46.

Percentage of foreign female prisoners

31.8 % (35)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46.

Mothers are allowed to keep their children with them

yes, until 3 years old

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 32.

Minors

Minimum age of imprisonment for minors

14 years old

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 41.

Incarcerated minors

0.2 %

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19/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

33.3 % (816)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 63.

People serving a life sentence

2.1 % (41)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 53.

Percentage of untried prisoners

19.9 % (452)
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19/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of elderly prisoners

2.6 % (63)

(≥ 65 years old)

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 42.

Death penalty is abolished

yes, since 1998