Netherlands
Capital city — Amsterdam
Country population
i31/01/2018/ Council of Europe,"Space I - Report 2018", p.28.Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
i31/01/2019/ Councile of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2019, p. 31.Type of government
Human Development Index
0.931(10/188)
i2017/ Source: United Nations Development Programme, "Report on human development".Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
i2016/ United Nations Development Programme, "Report on human development".Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice and SecurityThe Custodial Ins…
Total number of prisoners
i01/2019/ Councile of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2019, p. 31.Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
i2017/ Council of Europe, "Space I – Report 2018", p.108.Prison density
i31/01/2019/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2019, p. 72.Total number of prison facilities
30Budget cuts annou…
i2018An NPM has been established
Female prisoners
i09/2018Incarcerated minors
i09/2018Percentage of untried prisoners
i09/2018Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1952The death penalty…
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Measures are taken to prevent communicable or epidemic diseases. Vaccination against hepatitis B is available to men who having homosexual relations.
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According to several lawyers, quarantined inmates were not allowed to take showers or wear masks. Health Minister Sander Dekker indicated that this ban was taken for safety reasons. According to the minister, prison staff must be able to see the faces of inmates to “gauge their mood”.
There is no specific data on HIV/AIDS, syphilis, chlamydia, hepatitis B and C or the co-infection of tuberculosis and HIV (TB-HIV). The prevalence of any given disease can therefore not be established.
In 2016, the number of arrivals tested, who were either born or who had been convicted within the last five years in a country particularly affected by tuberculosis1, was 12,222. Thirteen tested positive.
more than 10 cases per 100,000 people ↩