Security/Prisoners · Italy

Prisoners in Italy: 87.9 per 100,000 people in 2015

Reference period: 2015 · Published: 17 May 2017

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87.85per 100,000 people

−2.22 points on 2014.

Prisoners · per 100,000 people

Values as published by the source, at current prices.

The vertical axis does not start at zero.

Data table

Prisoners · per 100,000 people
		Status	Crises	Governments
2015	87.85	final		Renzi government
2014	90.07	final		Letta government, Renzi government
2013	106.97	final		Monti government, Letta government
2012	112.98	final	Sovereign debt crisis	Monti government
2011	115.09	final	Sovereign debt crisis	Berlusconi IV government, Monti government
2010	117.02	final		Berlusconi IV government
2009	111.18	final	Financial crisis	Berlusconi IV government
2008	101.08	final	Financial crisis	Prodi II government, Berlusconi IV government

EU comparison · Nominal (per 100,000 people)

Same lens as the main chart: changing it here changes it above too. Context layers are those of the main country. Each country is read in the release published on the same date. No data published up to this date for: EU-27.

Data table

EU comparison · Nominal (per 100,000 people)

2015	87.85	77.61	100.29	132.65
2014	90.07	78.28	100.50	139.78
2013	106.97	82.24	102.25	142.88
2012	112.98	85.32	101.98	146.52
2011	115.09	86.69	99.70	151.01
2010	117.02	86.58	93.64	159.03
2009	111.18	88.16	94.76	164.53
2008	101.08	89.75	97.26	161.07

Descriptive analysis not yet available for this lens.

What it measures

People held in prison, per 100,000 inhabitants. Version published by Eurostat on 17 May 2017, retrieved from a copy kept by the Internet Archive.

Methodology

People held in prison, awaiting trial or convicted, per 100,000 inhabitants, from prison administration data collected by Eurostat. The count refers to a single day of the year and excludes people serving their sentence outside prison. For Italy the source is the Department of Penitentiary Administration. Eurostat computes no EU-27 value.

Source

Eurostat · Prison capacity and number of persons held

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Release SHA-256 hash

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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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