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Türkiye

Capital city — Ankara

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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

1042731871

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 131.

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

297,019

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

Variation in the number of prisoners

156.54% increase

(between 2008 and 2018)

i
2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

521,151

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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

7.54% increase

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

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

357

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

Variation in the incarceration rate

115.3% increase

(between 2010 and 2020)

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

Number of admissions

Data not disclosed

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

Number of releases

271,699

i
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

120.5 %

i
07/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

355

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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

233,194

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07/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

50,446

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01/02/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83.

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

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 85.