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.
Europe’s imprisonment rate continues to fall.
— Council of Europe (@coe) April 8, 2021
The Council of Europe’s annual penal statistics for 2020 are now online, including extensive data from 51 prison administrations across Europe.
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Georgia was the third country in Europe with the highest incarceration rate last year as well.
Based on the SPACE report, the percentage of prisoners serving sentences for drug offences on January 31, 2020 stands at 26 in Georgia.
CoE has meanwhile announced that the overall European imprisonment rate 'fell again slightly' in 2020, consolidating a trend that started in 2013.
On January 31, 2020, there were 1,528,343 inmates in 51 prison administrations (out of 52) of the CoE member states, which corresponds to a European prison population rate of 103.2 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants.