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Luxembourg

Capital city — Luxembourg

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Panorama

Overview

Organisation

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of Justice

Budget of the prison service

57,340,678.87

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

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

594

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

Variation in the number of prisoners

3.56% decrease

(between 2008 and 2018)

i
2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

962

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

Variation in the number of people serving non-custodial sentences

0.21% increase

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

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

95

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

31% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

912

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

Number of releases

1,008

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

8.4

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

Prison density

77 %

i
01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

2

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2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

711

i
01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

320.8

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

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 1.9

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

53.6

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

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

11.5 %

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