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Denmark

Capital city — ‎Copenhagen

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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

453800000

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 130.

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

4,140

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.

Variation in the number of prisoners

5.89 % increase

(between 2008 and 2018)

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2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

7,837

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2020, p. 30.

Variation in the number of people serving non-custodial sentences

22.21% decrease

(between 2019 and 2020)

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2019, p. 22.

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

71

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.

Variation in the incarceration rate

0.2 % decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

10,810

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

Number of releases

Data not disclosed

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

4.4

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 124.

Prison density

103.5 %

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15/04/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

45

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

4,035

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 74

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

1,890

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 2.2

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 86

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

371

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 82

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

8.7 %

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