Tuvalu

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CountryTuvalu
Ministry responsible
Office of the Prime Minister
Prison administration
Police, Immigration and Prisons Department
Contact address
Police Headquarters, National Co-ordination Centre, Box 33, Funafuti, Tuvalu
Telephone
+688 20728
Fax
+688 20159
Email
compol@tuvalu.tv
Head of prison administration (and title)
Ken T. Sione
Senior Warder (under overall command of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Motulu Jack Pedro, in his role as Superintendent of Prisons)
Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners)
11
at August 2014 (via U.S. State Department human rights report)
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)
110
based on an estimated national population of 10,000 at August 2014 (from United Nations figures)
Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners (percentage of prison population)
0.0%
(August 2014)
Female prisoners (percentage of prison population)
0.0%
(August 2014)
Juveniles / minors / young prisoners incl. definition (percentage of prison population)
0.0%
(August 2014 - under 18)
Foreign prisoners (percentage of prison population)
0.0%
(26.7.2007)
Number of establishments / institutions
2
(2011)
Official capacity of prison system
55
(2002)
Prison population trend
(year, prison population total, prison population rate)
2000 6 67
2005 7 70
2007 3 30
2010 8 80
2012 12 120
2000 6 67
2005 7 70
2007 3 30
2010 8 80
2012 12 120

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. 

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Year

Number of
female
prisoners

Percentage
of total
prison population

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

2000
2005
2010

0
0
0

0%
0%
0%

0
0
0

2014

0

0%

0

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