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Azerbaijan in the lead among Council of Europe countries for number of prisoners per 100,000 population
Baku/29.06.23/Turan: The Council of Europe has published the report "Prison Population 2022", prepared by the University of Lausanne.
According to the report, as of the end of 2022 in Europe's prisons a total of 981,575 people were serving their sentences. Turkey has the largest number of prisoners - 303.945, followed by 79.092 in the UK, 71. 874 in Poland and 69.964 in France.
Lawyer Khalid Aghaliyev noted, commenting on the report, that in Turkey there are 355 people imprisoned or already convicted to imprisonment per every 100.000 people.
According to this index, Georgia follows Turkey with 237 prisoners per 100.000 people.
In third place is Azerbaijan with the index of 216.8 prisoners per 100.000 people, continued Aghaliyev.
According to him, in Azerbaijan the total number of prisoners is 22 334, of which 21 713 are men and 621 women.
In Azerbaijan prisons there are 436 foreign nationals of men and 11 - women.
Of the total number of prisoners, 12.6% were sentenced for 1 to 3 years, 39.6% for 3 to 5 years, 32.7% for 5 to 10 years, 13.1% for 10 to 20 years and 1.7% for life.
Total number of places in prisons in Azerbaijan is 25,471 and they are 87.7% occupied.
However, as Turan notes, the occupancy figures in the prisons are contrary to reports from relatives of prisoners, who claim that penitentiary institutions are overcrowded, and in particular that there are more convicts than there are beds in the cells.
Azerbaijani authorities do not provide information on the number of prison staff, citing the secrecy of such data, said lawyer Aghaliyev.
In 2020 there were 208 prisoners per 100,000 people in Azerbaijan, and 215 in 2021.
In 2021, the annual cost of imprisonment in Azerbaijan was 64.8 million EUR or 7.97 EUR per prisoner per day. This is the lowest figure among Council of Europe countries after Ukraine.
In Turkey the daily cost per prisoner is 9.81 euros, in Georgia it is 10.55 euros and in Moldova 12.7 euros.
At that, Ireland is the leader in terms of spending on prisoners, where the figure is 1,207 euro per inmate per day. Next comes Norway - 378 euro, Luxembourg - 327 euro, and Liechtenstein - 300 euro.
The European average is 81.41 euros. -03B06-
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