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Moldova

Capital city — Chișinău

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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

27654200

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

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

6,716

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

Variation in the number of prisoners

2.77% increase

(between 2010 and 2020)

i
2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

12,092

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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

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

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

166.5

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

7.5% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

3,130

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

Number of releases

3,391

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

25.7

i
2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 125.

Prison density

95.4 %

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01/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

17

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2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

6,735

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01/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

Data not disclosed

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

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 3.9

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

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

127

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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

4.9 %

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p.85.