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Slovakia

Capital city — Bratislava

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Country-profile

Overview

Organisation

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Ministry of Justice (Ministerstvo spravodlivosti)

Budget of the prison service

204082850

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 131.

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

10,555

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

Variation in the number of prisoners

4.86% increase

(between 2010 and 2020)

i
2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

12,998

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

Variation in the number of people serving non-custodial sentences

1.68% decrease

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2019, p. 23.

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

193.4

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

3.5% increase

(between 2010 and 2020)

i
2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 35.

Number of admissions

8,505

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 98.

Number of releases

6,441

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

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

Data not disclosed

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

Prison density

89.1 %

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01/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

18

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2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

11,621

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01/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

Data not disclosed

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83.

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)

Data not disclosed

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83.

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

Data not disclosed

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