Prison Density and Prison Overcrowding in Ukraine

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An important indicator of Ukraine’s prison policy was the overcrowding of prisons, which has always been the subject of special attention in the ECtHR when considering complaints under Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and, as a result, the subsequent financial burden on the State Budget of Ukraine because of the regular establishment of overcrowding in the relevant ECtHR judgments.

Year	Total capacity of prisons (CoE)	Factual state (CoE)	Prison density per 100 places (CoE)
2001	216669	198855	92
2002	223140	198946	89,2
2003	220387	198386	90
2004	158600	193489	122
2005	159011	179519	112,9
2006	159966	165408	103,4
2007	159351	154055	96,7
2008	158717	148339	93,5
2009	157984	146394	92,7
2010	157439	152169	96,7
2011	157625	158532	100,6
2012	157625	151122	95,9
2014	140419	92290	65,7
2021	80353	49520	61,6
2022	88897	48038	54
2023	88897	42708	48