Uruguay

Capital city — Montevideo

Country population
3,480,222
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2017
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
330
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2017
/ National Institute of Statistics
Type of government
Presidential Democracy
Human Development Index
0.795
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Interior
Total number of prisoners
11,500
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2017
/ National Rehabilitation Institute
Prison density
115 %
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2016
/ Penitentiary Parliamentary Commissioner
Total number of prison facilities
29
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2017
An NPM has been established
Yes
created in 2008
Female prisoners
5 %
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2016
/ Annual report of the Penitentiary Parliamentary Commissioner
Percentage of untried prisoners
64 %
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2017
/ Office of Planning and Budget
Death penalty is abolished
Yes
since 1907

Contributor(s)Rolando Arbusún Rodríguez / Traslator: Briane Laruy / Reviewer: Ako Allan Agbor

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Parliamentary Commissioner for Penitentiary Affairs, “Special report on deaths in prison in 2016”, 21 November 2016.
National Institute of Human Rights and Office of the Ombudsman, “Report of the National Institute of Human Rights and the Office of the Ombudsman of the People of Uruguay”, fifty-second session, 11 April 2014.

OMCT, IELSUR, SERPAJ and Uruguayan Committee on the Rights of the Child, “Follow-up of Concluding Observations of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture on Uruguay”, April 2015.
United Nations Committee for the Prevention of Torture, “Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Uruguay”, 10 June 2014.
OMCT, IELSUR, Uruguayan Committee on the Rights of the Child, “Alternative report to the UN Committee for the Prevention of Torture”, fifty-second session - 28 April to 23 May 2014.
Amnesty International, “Information for the UN Universal Periodic Review”, eighteenth session of the UPR Working Group, January-February 2014.
Committee on the Rights of the Child, “Alternative Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Uruguay”, 2013.

Centre for Studies on Economic and Social Reality, “Imprisonment and Reintegration in Uruguay”, May 2017.
Díaz Molina, Manuel, Rama, Claudio, “Reintegration and social rehabilitation in Uruguayan prisons”, Universidad de la Empresa, Montevideo, 2014.
Rembrandt, “Campanero, a reintegration centre?”, 2014.
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Transnational Institute, “Overcrowded Systems - Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America”, Washington Office on Latin America, December 2010, p. 82-89.