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Slovakia

Capital city — Bratislava

  • Country population

    5,458,827
    i
    2020
    / World Bank
  • Type of government

    Parliamentary Republic
  • Human Development Index

    0.86

    (39/188)

    i
    2019
    / UNDP, Human Development Report
  • Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

    1.1
    i
    2019
    / UNDP, Human Development Report
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Ministry of Justice (Ministerstvo sprav…
  • Total number of prisoners

    10,555
    i
    31/01/2020
    / Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    193.4
    i
    31/01/2020
    / Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.
  • Average length of imprisonment (in mont…

    Data not disclosed

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

    89.1 %
    i
    01/07/2021
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Total number of prison facilities

    18
    i
    2021
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • An NPM has been established

    no
    i
    20/02/2019
    / APT
  • Number and percentage of female prisone…

    7.7 %
    i
    01/07/2021
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Incarcerated minors

    0.4 %
    i
    01/01/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Untried prisoners

    14.6 %
    i
    01/07/2021
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Death penalty is abolished

    yes, since 1990
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  • Safeguards
    • Physical integrity
    • National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies
  • Special populations
    • Women
    • Minors
    • Foreign prisoners
    • Long-term prisoners
    • Untried prisoners
    • Elderly prisoners
    • Death penalty prisoners
  • Security, order, and discipline
    • Incidents
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Security, order, and discipline

Number of escapes

2

i
2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 117.
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