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Lithuania

Capital city — Vilnius

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Country-profile

Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

3.7 % (144)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45

Percentage of untried female prisoners

12.8 % (37)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45.

Percentage of foreign female prisoners

0.7 % (2)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45.

Mothers are allowed to keep their children with them

yes, until 3 years old

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 32.

Minors

Minimum age of imprisonment for minors

12 years old

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 41.

Incarcerated minors

0.1 %

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01/01/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

2.1 % (128)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 62.

People serving a life sentence

2.1 % (111)
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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 53.

Percentage of untried prisoners

11.8 %

(726)

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01/01/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of elderly prisoners

3.5 % (214)

(≥ 65 years old)

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 42.

Death penalty is abolished

yes, since 1998