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Sweden

Capital city — Stockholm

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Country-profile

Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

6.1 % (407)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46

Percentage of untried female prisoners

30 % (122)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 46.

Percentage of foreign female prisoners

Data not disclosed

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31/01/2021
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45.

Mothers are allowed to keep their children with them

yes, there is no specific limit of age, but the first years of life.

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 32.

Minors

Minimum age of imprisonment for minors

15 years old

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

Incarcerated minors

0.3 %

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01/10/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

Data not disclosed

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 62.

People serving a life sentence

3.2 % (156)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 53.

28 %

(1.875)

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01/10/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of elderly prisoners

1.7 % (117)

(≥ 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 1972