Liberia

Capital city — Monrovia

Country population
4,640,000
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2016
/ World Prison Brief
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
44
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2016
/ ICPR
Type of government
Republic with presidential regime
Human Development Index
0.427
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
2,023
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2016
/ ICPR
Prison density
166 %
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2015
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
15
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2015
An NPM has been established
No
but OPCAT ratifie…
Female prisoners
1.3 %
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2016
/ ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
63 %
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2016
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
No, but abolitionnist in practice
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No execution since 2000

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Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

1.3 % (27)

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2016

/ ICPR

Untried prisoners

Percentage of untried prisoners

63 % (1,274)

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2016

/ ICPR

Death penalty prisoners

Death penalty is abolished

No, but abolitionnist in practice

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No execution since 2000