Overview

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of Corrections and Probation

Budget of the prison service

45,498,916.64

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 131.

Total number of prisoners

9,241

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Variation in the number of prisoners

61.4% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

20,883

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31/01/2021
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2020, p.  30.

Variation in the number of people serving non-custodial sentences

3.74% increase

(between 2019 and 2020)

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31/01/2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2019, p. 22.

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

264

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

50.6% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

8,512

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13/12/2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 97.

Number of releases

8,405

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

Data not disclosed

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

Prison density

79 %

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Total number of prison facilities

13

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Total official capacity of the prison facilities

11,656

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Number of prison guards (FTE)

2,016

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

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 5.4

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

Data not disclosed

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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

Data not disclosed

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