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Spain

Capital city — Madrid

Country population
46,840,000
i
05/2019
/ ICPR
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
127
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05/2019
/ ICPR
Type of government
Constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.891
(26/188)
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2017
/ UNDP
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.6
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2017
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the prison…
- Minister of the Interior for all autonomous…
Total number of prisoners
58,971
8,365 of the total…
i
01/2019
/ General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions
Average length of imprisonment (in months)
21.7
i
2017
/ SPACE, p. 108.
Prison density
71.8 %
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01/2018
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
82
i
2018
/ ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2009
Number and percentage of female prisoners
7.5 %
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01/2019
/ General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions
Incarcerated minors
0 %
The figure is for under…
i
2019
/ ICPR
Untried prisoners
15.7 %
Out of a total of 58,971
i
01/2019
/ General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions
Death penalty is abolished
yes, since November 1995

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