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Cambodia

Capital city — Phnom Penh

  • Country population

    15,650,000
    i
    2015
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    112
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Type of government

    Constitutional monarchy
  • Human Development Index

    0.563
    i
    2016
    / UNDP
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Directorate General of Prisons (DGP)
  • Total number of prisoners

    17,522
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Prison density

    206 %
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Total number of prison facilities

    28
    i
    2014
  • An NPM has been established

    No
  • Number and percentage of female prisone…

    8.3 %
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Incarcerated minors

    3.4 %
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Untried prisoners

    69.1 %
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Death penalty is abolished

    Yes

    since 1989

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For more information

  • LICADHO, Rights at a price: life in Cambodian prisons, January 2015.   

  • LICADHO, Mothers behind bars, the impact on detention on women and their children, May 2015.   

  • LICADHO, Childhood behind bars, growing up in a Cambodian prison, Dara’s story,, February 2015.   

  • LICADHO, Torture and Ill treatment: testimony from inside Cambodia’s police stations and prisons, June 2014.   

  • Prisoner’s pack Cambodia

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