Liberia

Capital city — Monrovia

Country population
4,640,000
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2016
/ World Prison Brief
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
44
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2016
/ ICPR
Type of government
Republic with presidential regime
Human Development Index
0.427
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2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
2,023
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2016
/ ICPR
Prison density
166 %
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2015
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
15
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2015
An NPM has been established
No
but OPCAT ratifie…
Number and percentage of female prisone…
1.3 %
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2016
/ ICPR
Untried prisoners
63 %
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2016
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
No, but abolitionnist in practice
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No execution since 2000

Year2018

but OPCAT ratified in 2004