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Spain

Capital city — Madrid

Country population
46,840,000
i
05/2019
/ ICPR
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
122
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04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.904
(25/188)
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2019
/ UNDP
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.6
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2017
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
- Minister of the Interior for all auto…
Total number of prisoners
57,680
including 8,244 i…
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15/04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
21.7
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2017
/ SPACE, p. 108.
Prison density
78 %
77% in SGIP insti…
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04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
82
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2018
/ ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2009
Number and percentage of female prisone…
7.4 %
i
02/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarcerated minors
0 %
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01/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Untried prisoners
15.9 %
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02/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1995

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