Print version| 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) |
|
Please send new or updated information to admin@icps.essex.ac.uk
