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Guyana: 271 2,156 Haiti: 63 7,523 ... Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List. Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ...
The overpopulation rate (number of prisoners held compared to number of places for prisoners) was estimated by the official prison service as 119%. [ 14 ] The growth rate of imprisonment in Poland during 2006–2007 was approximately 4% annually, based on the August 2007 estimate of 90,199 prisoners and the June 2005 estimate of 82,572 prisoners.
For prisoners and detainees held by Guyana, see Category:Prisoners and detainees of Guyana. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Guyana is the only country in South America that retains capital punishment for ordinary crimes. Guyana sentenced four people to death in 2021. As of 24 May 2021, there are 27 prisoners on death row in Guyana. [2] Guyana abstained from voting regarding the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty. [3]
The vast majority of the more than 80,000 prisoners sent to the Devil's Island prison system never returned to France. Many died due to disease and harsh conditions. Sanitary systems were limited, and the region was mosquito-infested, with the insects transmitting endemic tropical diseases. The only exit from the island prisons was by water ...
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.
The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. [6] That means the US held 21.0% of the world's prisoners in 2015, even though the US represented only around 4.4 percent of the world's population in 2015. [7] [8] In 2015 the US had the 2nd highest incarceration rate (698), behind the Seychelles rate of 799 per 100,000. [5]
According to a 2017 report by the National Human Rights Commission from Myanmar, over 700 prisoners in 26 prisons across the country had death sentences commuted to life imprisonment. [27] Singapore resumed executions in March 2022 after a two-year moratorium due to the COVID-19 pandemic.