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Sweden

Capital city — Stockholm

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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

705982227.00

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

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

7,000

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01/05/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Variation in the number of prisoners

7.16% decrease

(between 2008 and 2018)

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

10,530

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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

3.33% 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)

65

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

12.3% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

19,398

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

Number of releases

8,766

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

4

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

Prison density

102 %

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01/05/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

79

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2015
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

6,888

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01/05/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

4,791

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

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 1.5

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

556

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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

7.4 %

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