Georgia 3rd among countries with highest incarceration rates in Europe

Based on the recent CoE report, the overall European imprisonment rate has fallen slightly in 2020. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge archive

Agenda.ge, 08 Apr 2021 - 21:03, Tbilisi,Georgia

The Council of Europe’s new annual prison statistics report released earlier today says that Georgia is the third among the countries with the highest incarceration rates in Europe. 

With its 264 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants Georgia comes after Turkey (357) and Russia (356) with the highest incarceration rate in January 2020, the Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020 (SPACE) says.