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Lithuania

Capital city — Vilnius

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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

710195000.00

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 130.

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

6,138

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

Variation in the number of prisoners

16.11% decrease

(between 2008 and 2018)

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2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

Data not disclosed

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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

Data not disclosed

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2020, p. 30.

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

219.7

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

44% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

7,990

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

Number of releases

5,101

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

9.4

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

Prison density

83 %

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04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

9

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

7,236

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04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

1,902

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

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 3.2

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

225

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

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

6.9 %

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