Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

Prison Population 261
Extract of the trial questionnaire
4.1 Prison population
Data should refer to the situation at 1 September of each year. This date has
been chosen because it is the one used for the Council of Europe’s Annual
Penal Statistics (SPACE 57). If data are not available for this date, please
specify the date chosen.
The tables cover all penal institutions, of whatever nature, that come under
the responsibility of the prison administration: institutions for those held in
pre-trial detention on remand and institutions for sentenced prisoners, including
those reserved for special categories (e.g. institutions for minors and hospitals
run by the penal administration). If, for any reason, certain penal institutions
are excluded, please give the reasons.
Prison population
Include the following:
Pre-trial detainees
Persons held in institutions for juvenile offenders
Persons held in institutions for drug-addict offenders
Mentally ill offenders held in psychiatric institutions or hospitals
Offenders serving their sentence under electronic surveillance
(e.g. home detention curfew prior to final release from
prison)
Persons held in facilities under the responsibility of any other
Ministry than the Ministry of Justice
Exclude the following:
Asylum seekers or illegal aliens held for administrative reasons*
* If included, please indicate their number: ________
Indicate whether
‘included’ or ‘excluded’
57 The statistical system, SPACE (“Annual Penal Statistics’) - established in 1983 - mainly concerns
the prison populations. Annual data are published in the Penological Information Bulletin
(http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_affairs/Legal_cooperation/Prisons_and_alternatives/Bulletin/Bul
letin.asp)