Georgia among countries with highest incarceration rates in Europe
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Georgia has one of the highest incarceration rates in Europe, show annual statistics on prisons by the Council of Europe.
According to the survey (which reflects the situation in prison as of 2019), Georgia counts among countries with the highest incarceration rates (270 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants), along with Russia (386), Turkey (329), Lithuania (232), Azerbaijan (218) and Czech Republic (203),” CoE says.
By CoE.
Georgia was also placed among countries where the incarceration rate grew the most (+7%), along with Turkey (+13%), Cyprus (+11%), Denmark (+9%), Bulgaria (+8%), UK (Scotland (7%), Greece (+6%) and Sweden (+6%).
By CoE.
CoE said that 45 of the 52 prison administrations in the Council of Europe area answered this year’s questionnaire, except prison administrations in Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Malta and Ukraine.
CoE said that they obtained the information ‘from other sources.’Read the key findings of the report.
The Georgian Goju-ryu [the main traditional Okinawan style] karate and the basketball federations have gotten involved in a project of the Georgian Justice Ministry which aims to help juvenile convicts in three prisons of Georgia gain new skills.
A bill presented by the Georgian Dream ruling party MPs allows inmates to receive a Master’s degree while in prison as the current law regulates the conditions and procedures only for Bachelor’s degree.“The current law, with the involvement of the Ministry of Education and Justice, offers procedures and conditions only for the Bachelor’s degree for inmates. There are no rules for a Master’s degree,” says the bill.
The latest Council of Europe survey for mortality rates amongst inmates ranks Georgia as the fifth lowest.
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Today a group of diplomatic corps and media representatives saw first-hand how the Ministry remotely controlled juvenile inmates from the newly established Electric Monitoring Centre of the National Probation Agency.
Fully vaccinated convicts or suspects will be allowed to use the right to long visits starting September 27, the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia stated earlier today.
Convicts and employees of the Penitentiary Institution No.16 in the city of Rustavi received diplomas for successfully passing an international examination in French language following a course taught by a prisoner, the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia said on Monday.
Convicts and employees of penitentiary institutions across Georgia will receive public services at their facilities in a project promoted as a “Georgian innovation” by the Justice Ministry.