Turkey ranks first in Europe in number of arrests and sentences
Council of Europe annual crime statistics report 2022 produced by the University of Lausanne; It revealed prison data in 48 Council of Europe member states, including prison population, incarceration and overcrowding rates, prison budgets, and death and escape rates.
According to the news reported by the Turkish BBC, in the report indicating that there are 981,575 prisoners in 48 member countries of the Council of Europe as of January 31, 2022, it is revealed that Turkey is the country with the highest number of detainees and sentenced in prisons in Europe.
According to the report, as of January 31, 2022, the largest number of people in prison in Europe is in Turkey with 303,945. Turkey is followed by England and Wales with 79,092, Poland with 71,874 and France with 69,964.
There are 355 arrested and convicted for every 100,000 people in Türkiye. Georgia (237), Azerbaijan (217), Hungary (194), Lithuania (191), Poland (190), Slovak Republic (187), Albania (176), Czechia (175) and Latvia (172) follow Turkey.
INCREASED RATE
According to the report, between January 31, 2021, and January 31, 2022, the average incarceration rate in countries with a population of more than 1 million increased by 2.3 percent. Slovenia (+23), Finland (+15) and France (+15) were among the countries with the highest increase in this rate, while the incarceration rate in Turkey increased by 9.2 percent.
In Europe, incarceration rates rose 4.8 percent between these dates. The ratio of survivors per 100 existing cells increased from 87.4 to 91.6.
Seven countries whose data was used in the report reported that there were more than 105 prisoners in cells of 100 people, an indicator of overcrowding. Turkey is among the countries where prisons are overused, with 113 prisoners in every cell of 100 people. The busiest cells are in Romania with 124 and Cyprus with 118.
More than a quarter of all inmates are convicted of drug-related offenses in prisons in the 10 countries included in the report. In Turkey, this rate is at the level of 32 percent.
Source: Sozcu
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