Uganda

Capital city — Kampala

Country population
40,480,000
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
120
i
2016
/ ICPR
Type of government
Parliamentary Democracy
Human Development Index
0.493
i
2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the prison…
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Total number of prisoners
48,689
i
2016
/ Uganda Prisons Service
Average length of detention (in months)
2
months (for petty offences)
i
2015
/ UHRC
Occupancy rate
293 %
i
2016
/ ICPR
Total number of penal institutions
249
i
2016
A NPM has been created
No
Female prisoners
3.7 %
i
2014
/ FHRI
Incarcerated minors
3.7 %
i
2014
/ Uganda Police Annual Crime Report
Prisoners in pre-trial detention
55 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
The death penalty is abolished
No, but abolitionnist in practice
no execution since…

Date of the report2017

Author(s)Fondation for Human Rights Initiative | Prison Insider