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Moldova

Capital city — Chișinău

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Country-profile

Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

6 % (406)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46.

Percentage of untried female prisoners

14.5 % (59)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46.

Percentage of foreign female prisoners

1.2 % (5)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46.

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

14 years old

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

Incarcerated minors

0.6 %

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01/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

1.3 % (88)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 62.

People serving a life sentence

2.2 % (123)
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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 53.
16.4 % (1,056)
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01/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of elderly prisoners

3.2 % (213)

(≥ 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 1995