Portugal

Capital city — Lisbon

Country population
10,291,027
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2017
/ UNDP
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
126
i
2018
/ ICPR
Type of government
Parliamentary republic
Human Development Index
0.847
(41/188)
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2017
/ UNDP
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.6
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
12,806
Figures excluding…
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15/11/2018
/ DGRSP
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
31
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2015
/ Council of Europe, "SPACE I", 2016, p. 112.
Prison density
99 %
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15/11/2018
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
49
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2018
/ DGRSP
An NPM has been established
yes
in 2013
Female prisoners
6.3 %
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15/11/2018
/ DGRSP
Incarcerated minors
0 %
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2017
/ DGRSP
Percentage of untried prisoners
17.3 %
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15/11/2018
/ DGRSP
Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1976
"Human life…

AIDS - Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
CGP - Corpo da guarda prisional (penitentiary police corps)
CPT - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
DGPJ - Direção-Geral da Política de Justiça (Directorate General for justice policy)
DGRSP - Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais (Directorate General of reintegration and prison services)
GISP - Grupo de Intervenção de Segurança Prisional (Prison security intervention group)
HIV - Human immunodeficiency virus
LGBTI - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex
NGO - Non-governmental organization
NPM - National prevention mechanism
OPCAT - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
PEP - Personal educational project
RNR - Risk-need-responsivity
SNS - Serviço Nacional de Saúde (Health national service)
SPACE I - Statistiques Pénales Annuelles du Conseil de l’Europe (Council of Europe annual penal statistics)
SPT - Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
STD - Sexually transmitted disease
UNCAT - United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme