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Spain

Capital city — Madrid

Country population
47,326,687
i
01/2021
/ INE
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
116
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12/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.904
(25/188)
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2019
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.6
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2018
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
- Minister of the Interior for all auto…
Total number of prisoners
55,097
including 7,746 i…
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12/2021
/ SGIP
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
22.1
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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2021, p. 124.
Prison density
74 %
73% in SGIP insti…
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01/2021
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2021, p. 77.
Total number of prison facilities
82
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2022
/ Infoprision
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2009
Number and percentage of female prisone…
7.1 %
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12/2021
/ SGIP
Incarcerated minors
0 %
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01/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Untried prisoners
16.1 %
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12/2021
/ SGIP
Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1995

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