SPACE PROJECT: 2020 UPDATE
10th PC-CP Plenary Meeting, 13-14 October 202 Strasbourg I via Zoom | 13 October 2020
Prof. Marcelo F. Aebi (PhD)
Mélanie M. Tiago (MLaw)
Yuji Z. Hashimoto (M. Law)
SPACE I
Map 1. Prison population rates (inmates per 100,000
inhabitants) on 31
stJanuary 2019
2.9 31.3 40.3 49.8 54.8 56.4 59.7 60.6 66.4 67.1 68.9 73.5 76.4 76.7 78.9 79.2 81.2 81.3 82.5 94.9 99.0 99.6 103.2 104.5 105.6 106.1 106.6 106.7 107.5 108.2 110.1 125.2 125.7 125.7 125.9 128.7 137.9 146.0 156.1 169.5 181.1 183.4 184.5 185.5 188.9 190.1 197.0 202.6 218.2 232.1 269.7 329.0 386.1 0
50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450
SanMarino Liechtenstein Iceland Finland Monaco Netherlands Sweden Norway BH:RepublikaSrpska Slovenia Denmark Andorra Armenia Germany Croatia UK:NorthernIreland Ireland Switzerland Cyprus Belgium Greece Italy NorthMacedonia France Austria Europeanmedian Romania Bulgaria Malta Luxembourg Spain(Catalonia) Portugal Ukraine Spain(Total) Europeanaverage Spain(StateAdministration) UK:EnglandandWales UK:Scotland Serbia(Republicof) Hungary Estonia Latvia Albania Montenegro SlovakRepublic Poland Moldova CzechRepublic Azerbaijan Lithuania Georgia Turkey RussianFederation
Prisonpopulationrate(per100,000inhabitants)
Figure 1. Prison population rates (inmates per 100,000
inhabitants) on 31
stJanuary 2019
Figure 2. Trends in the prison population rates, from 2009 to 2019
90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Prisonpopulationrateper100,000inhabitants
European average (49 prison administrations) European median (49 prison administrations)
Figure 3: Percentage change in prison population rates (2019 compared to 2009)
SanMarino;-54.8 Latvia;-43.3 Georgia;-40.3 Armenia;-38.0 RussianFederation;-36.2 Estonia;-32.0 Croatia;-30.5 Spain(StateAdministration);-26.5 Finland;-26.1 Spain(Total);-25.8 Cyprus;-25.5 Sweden;-22.7 Luxembourg;-21.4 Spain(Catalonia);-21.0 Netherlands;-20.0 Romania;-19.4 Germany;-14.2 NorthMacedonia;-14.1 Poland;-13.7 Bulgaria;-13.1 Iceland;-13.0 Monaco;-12.9 Norway;-11.5 Lithuania;-10.9 Malta;-10.6 UK:EnglandandWales;-9.1 Andorra;-8.7 Italy;-8.1 Greece;-6.4 Belgium;-6.4 Ireland;-6.3 UK:Scotland;-6.1 Azerbaijan;-5.2 CzechRepublic;-4.1 UK:NorthernIreland;-2.8 BH:RepublikaSrpska;-0.9 Slovenia;-0.1 France;1.4 Denmark;2.1 Switzerland;2.9 Hungary;3.3 Moldova;3.8 Austria;4.5 SlovakRepublic;10.9 Serbia(Republicof);11.6 Montenegro;16.1
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Figure 4: Evolution of the European average and median rates of admissions and releases per 100,000 inhabitants
(2009-2018)
90 110 130 150 170 190 210 230 250
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018
Ratesper100,000inhabitants
Rate of admissions - European average Rate of releases - European average Rate of admissions - European median Rate of releases - European median
More about trends in prison populations
Figure 5. Percentage of female inmates in the prison population on 31
stJanuary 2019
0.0% 0.0% 2.0% 2.6% 2.9% 3.0% 3.2% 3.3% 3.6% 3.9% 4.1% 4.1% 4.3% 4.3% 4.3% 4.5% 4.5% 4.6% 4.6% 4.7% 4.8% 5.1% 5.1% 5.1% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3% 5.6% 5.7% 5.7% 6.0% 6.2% 6.4% 6.5% 6.9% 7.0% 7.1% 7.3% 7.5% 7.5% 7.6% 7.6% 7.6% 7.8% 7.9% 8.9% 14.3%
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Liechtenstein SanMarino Albania Montenegro Azerbaijan Bulgaria Armenia NorthMacedonia France Turkey Poland Serbia(Republicof) UK:NorthernIreland Italy Denmark UK:Scotland Ireland UK:EnglandandWales Romania Lithuania Estonia Cyprus Luxembourg Europeanmedian Croatia Greece Slovenia Europeanaverage Sweden Netherlands Switzerland Norway Austria Portugal Moldova Germany Finland Spain(Catalonia) Hungary SlovakRepublic Spain(Total) Spain(StateAdministration) CzechRepublic Iceland Latvia RussianFederation Andorra Monaco
Figure 6. Percentage of inmates aged 50 or over in the prison population on 31
stJanuary 2019
0.0% 7.0% 7.1% 9.1% 9.3% 10.9% 11.0% 11.1% 11.4% 11.4% 11.9% 12.8% 13.2% 13.2% 13.3% 13.8% 14.1% 14.5% 14.6% 14.7% 14.7% 15.3% 15.3% 15.6% 15.6% 16.0% 16.0% 16.1% 16.1% 16.5% 16.5% 17.1% 17.8% 19.0% 19.2% 19.5% 19.7% 20.4% 21.0% 24.7% 33.3% 35.2%
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SanMarino RussianFederation Moldova Montenegro Lithuania Turkey Denmark Iceland Finland Albania France Ireland Romania UK:NorthernIreland Luxembourg CzechRepublic Croatia Austria Sweden Cyprus Europeanmedian SlovakRepublic Europeanaverage Serbia(Republicof) Poland NorthMacedonia Hungary Andorra Netherlands UK:EnglandandWales Greece Estonia Spain(Catalonia) Monaco Slovenia Spain(Total) Spain(StateAdministration) Norway Portugal Italy Liechtenstein Bulgaria
Figure 7. Inmates aged 65 or over in the prison population on 31
stJanuary 2019 (absolute numbers)
0 0 1 2 3 6 8 18 43 46 48 51 99 111 115 116 171 172 190 196 203 209 213 219 234 243 255 282 396 1263 1322 1448 1466 2247 2895 2995 3521
0 500 1 000 1 500 2 000 2 500 3 000 3 500 4 000
Monaco San Marino
Liechtenstein Andorra
Iceland Montenegro
Luxembourg Cyprus
UK: Northern Ireland Slovenia
Finland Estonia
Norway Denmark
Sweden Ireland
Netherlands SlovakRepublic
Croatia
NorthMacedonia Spain(Catalonia)
Moldova Austria
Lithuania Hungary
Albania Greece CzechRepublic
Portugal
Spain(State Administration) Poland
France Spain(Total) Italy
RussianFederation UK: England andWales
Turkey
Figure 10. Percentage of sentenced prisoners serving sentences for drug offences on 31
stJanuary 2019
(upper half of the distribution only)
16.8% 17.7% 18.2% 18.5% 18.6% 18.7% 18.7% 19.5% 20.9% 22.0% 23.0% 23.4% 24.2% 24.3% 27.4% 27.8% 28.0% 28.3% 31.8% 31.8% 34.4% 46.9% 87.5%
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Spain(Total) France
Luxembourg
Spain(StateAdministration) Switzerland
Finland Montenegro
Denmark Turkey
Sweden
Serbia(Republicof) Norway
Estonia Cyprus
RussianFederation Azerbaijan
Albania Italy
Iceland Latvia
Andorra
Figure 11. Distribution of sentenced prisoners according to the length of the sentence they are serving, in
percentages, on 31
stJanuary 2019
1.3% 2.0%
4.8%
8.2%
11.4%
16.7%
20.2%
27.4%
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Life imprisonment
20yearsand over
Lessthan 6months
From6 monthstoless than 1year
From10toless than20 years
From3 to lessthan 5years
From5 to lessthan 10 years
From1 to lessthan 3years
Figure 12. Percentage of detainees not serving a final sentence in the prison population on 31
stJanuary 2019
0.0% 2.8% 8.4% 9.2% 9.3% 9.3% 10.2% 11.3% 13.2% 13.7% 15.1% 15.3% 15.4% 15.6% 15.7% 16.9% 17.1% 17.3% 18.1% 19.1% 20.4% 20.4% 20.5% 21.9% 21.9% 22.4% 22.9% 23.8% 25.9% 25.9% 27.9% 28.1% 29.0% 29.2% 30.4% 31.0% 31.1% 32.8% 35.4% 38.2% 40.7% 41.0% 42.6% 47.7% 48.6% 57.1% 76.2% 83.3%
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SanMarino Hungary CzechRepublic RussianFederation Romania Lithuania Poland UK:EnglandandWales Iceland NorthMacedonia Estonia SlovakRepublic Spain(StateAdministration) Serbia(Republicof) Spain(Total) Azerbaijan Portugal Spain(Catalonia) Moldova Bulgaria Ireland Turkey UK:Scotland Germany Europeanmedian Austria Finland Slovenia Norway Europeanaverage Latvia Sweden France Montenegro Cyprus Croatia Greece Italy UK:NorthernIreland Denmark Albania Armenia Netherlands Switzerland Luxembourg Andorra Monaco Liechtenstein
Figure 13. Percentage of foreign inmates in the prison population on 31
stJanuary 2019
0.0% 1.2% 1.2% 1.4% 1.9% 1.9% 2.0% 2.1% 2.4% 2.9% 3.0% 3.3% 4.6% 5.2% 6.2% 6.7% 8.2% 9.3% 11.1% 12.1% 13.6% 14.4% 15.2% 15.3% 17.9% 20.1% 21.5% 22.9% 23.1% 23.1% 25.3% 28.1% 28.2% 31.1% 33.8% 35.1% 43.6% 44.9% 54.7% 54.9% 58.9% 72.1% 74.4% 75.0% 95.2%
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SanMarino Romania Moldova Poland Albania Lithuania SlovakRepublic Azerbaijan Latvia Serbia(Republicof) Bulgaria Turkey Hungary Armenia RussianFederation NorthMacedonia CzechRepublic UK:NorthernIreland UK:EnglandandWales Croatia Ireland Europeanmedian Portugal Montenegro Finland Slovenia Iceland Europeanaverage France Netherlands Spain(StateAdministration) Spain(Total) Denmark Norway Italy Estonia Cyprus Spain(Catalonia) Austria Greece Andorra Switzerland Luxembourg Liechtenstein Monaco
More about trends in foreign offenders
Figure 14. Average length of imprisonment in 2018 (based on the stock and flow of inmates)
0.6 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.3 3.8 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.7 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.9 5.9 6.2 6.2 6.4 7.0 7.4 8.0 8.0 8.2 8.3 9.3 10.3 10.6 10.7 11.0 11.2 12.1 14.0 14.1 14.6 15.3 16.1 18.2 20.5 20.9 23.4 24.1 25.9 31.7 36.5
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
SanMarino Cyprus Switzerland Monaco Liechtenstein Netherlands UK:NorthernIreland Denmark UK:Scotland Croatia Norway Bulgaria Montenegro Ireland Finland Serbia(Republicof) Andorra Iceland Slovenia UK:EnglandandWales Germany Europeanmedian Sweden Luxembourg Lithuania Austria Europeanaverage Hungary France Poland Greece NorthMacedonia SlovakRepublic Albania Italy Estonia Spain(Catalonia) Spain(Total) Spain(StateAdministration) Romania CzechRepublic Moldova Portugal Azerbaijan
Averagelengthofimprisonment(inmonths)
Figure 15. Relationship between the average length of imprisonment and prison population rates
Albania
Austria
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland Italy
Moldova
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway Poland
Portugal Romania Serbia
Slovenia
Spain (State Administration) Spain (Catalonia)
UK: England and Wales
UK: Northern Ireland
UK: Scotland
R² = 0.1886
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Prisonpopulationrateper100,000inhabitants
Average length of imprisonment (based on the total number of days spent in penal institutions), in months
* Are not included countries with less than one million inhabitants and Lithuania because of the exceptionnally high PPR
Costs of imprisonment in 2018
✓ The costs are calculated on the basis of real expenditures and not on the foreseen budgets
✓ 26.1 billion Euros (43 prison administrations)
✓ Daily cost of an inmate = € 68 (42 prison administrations)
✓ Huge variations across countries
SPACE II
Percentages of persons on conditional release among probationers on 31 st January 2019 (N=38)
0 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 11 11 12 12 14 14 16 17 18 20 24 25 30 37 38 40 44
100 99 99 99 99 98 97 97 97 95 95 95 95 95 94 94 92 92 92 92 92 92 91 91 89 89 88 88 87 86 84 83 82 80 76 75 70 63 62 60 56
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Turkey Cyprus
Romania Serbia
Georgia Monaco
France Slovenia
Malta Lithuania
Ireland Latvia
Belgium Italy Netherlands
Bulgaria
Spain(Catalonia) Poland
Azerbaijan SlovakRepublic
EUROPEANMEDIAN Spain(Total) Spain(StateAdmin.)
Croatia Portugal
UK: Scotland Armenia
Estonia
EUROPEANAVERAGE Norway
Denmark Luxembourg
Iceland CzechRepublic
Switzerland Austria
Sweden Finland
Greece
UK: EnglandandWales UK: NorthernIreland
Percentage
% Conditional release (parole) % Probation excluding conditional release
Probation population rates (probationers per
100,000 inhabitants) on 31 st January 2019 (N=41)
0.0 26.1 45.5 49.6 53.2 70.9 73.1 78.0 92.3 97.2 99.6 107.0 111.1 125.1 128.2 129.5 135.2 138.6 138.9 144.0 155.2 156.4 166.4 188.6 190.9 204.7 206.6 210.5 214.4 225.0 242.6 262.5 298.0 302.6 323.8 329.0 350.4 359.3 397.3 447.1 523.3 540.6 590.9 646.1
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Serbia Norway
Switzerland Finland
Bulgaria Iceland
Slovenia Croatia
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Monaco Azerbaijan
Spain(StateAdmin.) Spain(Total)
Ireland Italy
Ukraine Denmark Spain(Catalonia)
EUROPEAN MEDIAN
Luxembourg Austria
Malta Greece Netherlands
EUROPEAN AVERAGE
Armenia
UK: NorthernIreland CzechRepublic
SlovakRepublic France
Portugal
UK: EnglandandWales Latvia
Estonia
RussianFederation Romania
UK: Scotland Belgium
Lithuania Georgia
Turkey Poland
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