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Uruguay
Capital city —
Montevideo
Country population
3,480,222
i
2017
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
330
i
2017
/ National Institute of Statistics
Type of government
Presidential Democracy
Human Development Index
0.795
i
2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Interior
Total number of prisoners
11,500
i
2017
/ National Rehabilitation Institute
Prison density
115 %
i
2016
/ Penitentiary Parliamentary Commissioner
Total number of prison facilities
29
i
2017
An NPM has been established
Yes
created in 2008
Female prisoners
5 %
i
2016
/ Annual report of the Penitentiary Parliamentary Commissioner
Percentage of untried prisoners
64 %
i
2017
/ Office of Planning and Budget
Death penalty is abolished
Yes
since 1907
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Year
2018
2021
2020
2018
Contributor(s)
Rolando Arbusún Rodríguez / Traslator: Briane Laruy / Reviewer: Ako Allan Agbor
Introduction
Overview
Prison population
Organisation
Prison facilities
Safeguards
National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies
Special populations
Women
Untried prisoners
Death penalty prisoners
Physical integrity
Death penalty
Life imprisonment
Deaths in detention
Ill-treatment and violence
Specific population
Prison population
Women
Juveniles
Foreigners
LGBTI persons
The elderly
The sick and the disabled
The system organisation
The penitentiary system
Premises
Staff
Daily life
The cells and their equipment
Food
Hygiene
Health
Activities
Work
Schooling and professional training
Media
Religion
External participants
Financial resources and destitution
Means of communication for the inmates
Collective movements
Security and safety
Contact with the outside world
Family visits
Correspondence and phone calls
Sentence adjustment policies
Access to legal rights
National preventive mechanism (NPM)
Recommendations
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Safeguards
An NPM has been established
Yes
created in 2008
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