Back Europe’s imprisonment rate continues to fall: Council of Europe’s annual penal statistics released

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The overall European imprisonment rate - the number of persons in prison per 100,000 inhabitants - fell again slightly in 2020, consolidating a trend that started in 2013, according to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020 (see also the Key findings).

6 May 2021
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