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Latvia

Capital city — Riga

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Country-profile

Overview

Organisation

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of Justice

Budget of the prison service

62256614

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

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

3,414

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

Variation in the number of prisoners

46.63% decrease

(between 2010 and 2018)

i
2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

5,673

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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

8.75% decrease

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

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

179

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

44% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

Data not disclosed

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

Number of releases

Data not disclosed

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

69 %

i
04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

11

i
2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

4,822

i
04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

1,718

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

54

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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

1.7 %

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