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Iceland

Capital city — Reykjavík

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Country-profile

Overview

Organisation

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of the Interior

Budget of the prison service

15220000

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

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

164

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

Variation in the number of prisoners

6.43% decrease

(between 2008 and 2018)

i
2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

273

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

Variation in the number of people serving non-custodial sentences

4.6% increase

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

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

45

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

13.3% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

380

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

Number of releases

363

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

5

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

Prison density

68 %

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15/04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

5

i
2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

176

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

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

91.4

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

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 1.9

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

12

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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

9.1 %

i
2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p.84.