Security/Prison occupancy · Italy

Prison occupancy in Italy: 105.9 prisoners per 100 places in 2015

Reference period: 2015 · Published: 17 May 2017

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105.9prisoners per 100 places

−2.5 points on 2014.

Prison occupancy · prisoners per 100 places

Values as published by the source, at current prices.

The vertical axis does not start at zero.

Data table

Prison occupancy · prisoners per 100 places
		Status	Crises	Governments
2015	105.9	final		Renzi government
2014	108.5	final		Letta government, Renzi government
2013	131.5	final		Monti government, Letta government
2012	140.2	final	Sovereign debt crisis	Monti government
2011	147.1	final	Sovereign debt crisis	Berlusconi IV government, Monti government
2010	151.3	final		Berlusconi IV government
2009	146.3	final	Financial crisis	Berlusconi IV government
2008	135.2	final	Financial crisis	Prodi II government, Berlusconi IV government

What it measures

Prisoners per 100 places of official capacity, computed from the values published by Eurostat. Version published by Eurostat on 17 May 2017, retrieved from a copy kept by the Internet Archive.

Methodology

Prisoners per 100 places of official capacity, computed by Data Super Partes dividing the two values Eurostat publishes for the same year. Above 100 there are more prisoners than places. Official capacity is declared by each prison administration with national criteria, which differ by country, and does not account for unusable places.

Source

Eurostat · Prison capacity and number of persons held

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Context layers and attribution rules

Crises
Conventional whole-year periods chosen by the editors; each period's source documents the event. They apply to every EU country. They show temporal coincidences, not causes.
4 periods with source
1. Financial crisis1 Jan 2008 – 31 Dec 2009
2. Sovereign debt crisis1 Jan 2011 – 31 Dec 2012
3. COVID-19 pandemic1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2021
4. Energy crisis1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022
Governments
Each government covers the period from its swearing-in to the end date given by governo.it. An annual figure is not attributed to a single government: the bands show who was in office during the period, as a temporal coincidence. For public spending, the budget law for year N is passed by the government in office in year N−1.
14 periods with source
1. D'Alema II government22 Dec 1999 – 25 Apr 2000
2. Amato II government25 Apr 2000 – 11 Jun 2001
3. Berlusconi II government11 Jun 2001 – 23 Apr 2005
4. Berlusconi III government23 Apr 2005 – 17 May 2006
5. Prodi II government17 May 2006 – 6 May 2008
6. Berlusconi IV government8 May 2008 – 16 Nov 2011
7. Monti government16 Nov 2011 – 27 Apr 2013
8. Letta government28 Apr 2013 – 21 Feb 2014
9. Renzi government22 Feb 2014 – 12 Dec 2016
10. Gentiloni government12 Dec 2016 – 1 Jun 2018
11. Conte I government1 Jun 2018 – 4 Sept 2019
12. Conte II government5 Sept 2019 – 13 Feb 2021
13. Draghi government13 Feb 2021 – 22 Oct 2022
14. Meloni government22 Oct 2022 – in office

Release history

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