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Albania

Capital city — Tirana

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Country-profile

Overview

Organisation

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of Justice

Budget of the prison service

45965033

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 131.

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

4,641

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12/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Variation in the number of prisoners

5.6% increase

(between 2011 and 2019)

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

Data not disclosed

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

178

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 34.

Variation in the incarceration rate

9.3% increase

(between 2010 and 2020)

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 35.

Number of admissions

3,864

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 97.

Number of releases

3,911

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 104

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

16.4

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 125.

Prison density

80 %

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

23

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2017
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

6,106

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 74

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

2,413

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 2

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 87

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

144

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83

Percentage of socio-educational workers in relation to the entire prison staff

3.2 % (144)
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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p.83