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Country COTE D'IVOIRE
Ministry responsible Ministère de la Justice
Prison administration Direction de l'Administration Pénitentiaire (DAP)
Contact address B.P.V. 107, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Telephone/fax/website tel: +225 20 21 37 43
fax: +225 20 33 12 59
Head of prison administration
(and title)
Coulibaly Mohamed Vabé
Directeur
Prison population total
(including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners)
11,143
at 30.9.2008 (in the 22 prisons under government control - U.S. State Department human rights report)
Prison population rate
(per 100,000 of national population)
56
based on an estimated national population of 19.8 million at end of September 2008 (from United Nations figures)
Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners
(percentage of prison population)
28.5%
(31.12.2007)
Female prisoners
(percentage of prison population)
2.3%
(8.3.2002)
Juveniles / minors / young prisoners
incl. definition (percentage of prison population)
3.9%
(8.3.2002 - under 18)
Foreign prisoners
(percentage of prison population)
c.30%
(1998)
Number of establishments /
institutions
33
(2010 - 22 in the south under Government control; 11 in the north under control of the Forces Nouvelles)
Official capacity of prison system 4,871
(31.12.2007 - 1,500 in the main prison MACA and 3,371 in the 21 other prisons under government control)
Occupancy level (based on official
capacity)
218.0%
(31.12.2007 - occupancy rate of 22 prisons under government control)
Recent prison population trend
(year, prison population total, prison population rate)
1993 12,215 (90)
1997 13,424 (93)
2002 10,355 (62)

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