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United Kingdom: England & Wales

Capital city — London

  • Country population

    59,720,000
    i
    2020
    / Office for National Statistics
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    133
    i
    03/2019
    / ICPR
  • Type of government

    constitutional monarchy
  • Human Development Index

    0.93

    (13/188)

    i
    2020
    / UNDP
  • Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

    0.99
    i
    2021
    / Office for National Statistics
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Ministry of Justice
  • Total number of prisoners

    79,086

    England and Wales…

    i
    01/2022
    / Ministry of Justice
  • Average length of imprisonment (in mont…

    21.4

    The average lengt…

    i
    2018
    / Ministry of Justice, "Criminal Justice Statistics quarterly, England an Wales, July 2017 to June 2018 (provisional)", p. 01.
  • Prison density

    102.6 %

    68 prison establi…

    i
    03/2022
    / ICPR
  • Total number of prison facilities

    118
    i
    12/2018
  • An NPM has been established

    yes

    in March 2009

  • Number and percentage of female prisone…

    4 %
    i
    01/2022
    / Ministry of Justice
  • Incarcerated minors

    0.5 %
    i
    2021
    / Council of Europe, SPACE I – Rapport 2021, p. 45.
  • Untried prisoners

    16.2 %
    i
    12/2021
    / Ministry of Justice, "Offender Management Statistics Bulletin, England and Wales", p. 3.
  • Death penalty is abolished

    yes

    since 1998

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