Turkey’s prison population increased by 10 percent to 291,546 in 2019: TurkStat

Source:Stockholm Center for Freedom Date:04Nov2020

The number of inmates in Turkey’s prisons who were either in pre-trial detention or convicted of a crime was 291,546 in 2019, a 10.1 percent increase over the previous year, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).

TurkStat prepares a report on the prison population every November. According to the report 96 percent of the inmates were men, while 4 percent were women. The report states that there were 13,015 minors in juvenile detention facilities. The data showed that theft was the most frequent crime committed in Turkey, followed by assault and the sale of illegal drugs.