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Ministry responsible
Ministry of Interior
Prison administration
General Directorate of Reformation and Rehabilitation
Telephone
+973 17844444
Fax
+973 17840131
Email
infogdrr@moipolice.bh
Head of prison administration (and title)
Brigadier General Abdul Salam Al Arifi
Director General
Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners)
3 485
at 2017 (via U.S. State Department human rights report)
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)
234
based on an estimated national population of 1.49 million at 2017 (United Nations figures)
Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners (percentage of prison population)
25.7%
(2017)
Female prisoners (percentage of prison population)
Circa
4.7%
(2015)
Juveniles / minors / young prisoners incl. definition (percentage of prison population)
Circa
3.4%
(2015 - under 18)
Foreign prisoners (percentage of prison population)
Circa
23.7%
(2015)
Number of establishments / institutions
4
(2015 - Dry Dock detention centre, Jau prison, women's detention centre, reform and rehabilitation centre for women.)
Official capacity of prison system
Circa
3 455
(2015)
Occupancy level (based on official capacity)
Circa
110.2%
(2015)
Prison population trend
(year, prison population total, prison population rate)
2003 437 57
2004 701 85
2010 1,100 89
2012 2,307 177
2015 c 3,795 c 281
2003 437 57
2004 701 85
2010 1,100 89
2012 2,307 177
2015 c 3,795 c 281

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Female prison population: trend

The table below gives an indication of the trend in the female prison population. The final row shows the latest figures available.

It consists of the number of female prisoners in the prison population on a single date in the year (or the annual average) and the percentage of the total prison population that female prisoners constituted on that day. 

The final column shows the female prison population rate per 100,000 of the national population.

                                                 BAHRAIN

Year

Number of
female
prisoners

Percentage
of total
prison population

Female prison
population rate
(per 100,000 of
national population)

2003
2009
2013

101
57
189

23.1%
11.4%
4.7%

12.7
4.8
14.1

2015

178

c. 4.7%

c. 13.2

The number of female prisoners fluctuates and so the above figures give an indication of the trend but the picture is inevitably incomplete.

The female prison population rate is calculated on the basis of the national population total. All national population figures are inevitably estimates but the estimates used in the World Prison Brief are based on official national figures, United Nations figures or figures from other recognised international authorities.

(If the rate were calculated on the basis of the number of females in the national population it would of course be approximately double the figure in the final column).

Prison population total
Prison population rate