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Prison overcrowding remains a problem in Europe: Council of Europe’s annual penal statistics for 2023
Council of Europe
6 June 2024
Strasbourg
Prison overcrowding continues to be an acute and persistent problem in a significant number of European prison administrations, according to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations (SPACE I) for 2023, released today (see also the Key findings). In countries with over...
