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Armenia

Capital city — Yerevan

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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

16 160 449.00 €

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

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

2,197

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15/04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Variation in the number of prisoners

15 % decrease

(between 2015 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)

75

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

50.4 % decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

Data not disclosed

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

Number of releases

1,326

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

Data not disclosed

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

Prison density

41.1 % (2,197)
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15/04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

12

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

5,346

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

747

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

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 3

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

32

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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

1.4 % (32)
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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83