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Georgia

Capital city — Tbilissi

  • Country population

    3,370,000
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    236
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Type of government

    Democratic Republic
  • Human Development Index

    0.769
    i
    2016
    / UNDP
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assis…
  • Total number of prisoners

    10,236
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Average length of imprisonment (in mont…

    9

    months

    i
    2015
    / HRIDC
  • Prison density

    47 %
    i
    2015
    / ICPR
  • Total number of prison facilities

    15
  • An NPM has been established

    yeas, in 2009
  • Number and percentage of female prisone…

    2.7 %
    i
    2015
    / HRIDC
  • Incarcerated minors

    0.8 %
    i
    HRIDC
  • Death penalty is abolished

    Yes

    since 1996

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    • Prison population
    • Organisation
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  • Safeguards
    • National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies
  • Special populations
    • Women
    • Minors
    • Death penalty prisoners
  • Physical integrity
    • Death penalty
    • Deaths in detention
    • Ill-treatment and violence
  • Specific population
    • Prison population
    • Women
    • Juveniles
    • Foreigners
    • Ethnic or religious minorities
    • LGBTI persons
    • Prisoners of conscience
    • The elderly
    • The sick and the disabled
  • The penitentiary system
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  • Daily life
    • The cells and their equipment
    • Food
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    • Schooling and professional training
    • Religion
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    • Collective movements
    • Security and safety
  • Contact with the outside world
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Overview

Prison population

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

236

i
2015
/ ICPR

Total number of prisoners

10,236

i
2015
/ ICPR

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

9

months

i
2015
/ HRIDC

Prison density

47 %

i
2015
/ ICPR

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance

Total number of prison facilities

15

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