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Finland

Capital city — Helsinki

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Panorama

Overview

Organisation

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of Justice

Budget of the prison service

453,800,000

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 130.

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

2,756

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33

Variation in the number of prisoners

17.47% decrease

(between 2008 and 2018)

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2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

2,957

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2020, p. 30.

Variation in the number of people serving non-custodial sentences

2.85% decrease

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2019, p. 22.

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

50

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.

Variation in the incarceration rate

19.5% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 34.

Number of admissions

5,934

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 97.

Number of releases

5,912

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 104

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

5.5

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 124.

Prison density

91 %

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01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

26

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2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

2,878

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01/01/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

1,312

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 82

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 2.1

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 86.

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

430

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 82

Percentage of socio-educational workers in relation to the entire prison staff

12.1 %

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 84.