Introduction

Prison Insider’s 2020 country profile provides the figures available to date on the Republika Srpska’s prison system and a selection of press articles. It is designed to be evolutive and to document both the legal principles and their implementation. This fact sheet requires further development: completing the report calls for everyone’s participation. Please share any relevant information with our editorial board.
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Data on the prison system in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are available here.

Country population

3,323,929

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2018

Type of government

Constitutional republic (Presidential Democracy)

Human Development Index

0.769

(75/188)

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Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

1.2

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