Print version| Country | CHINA | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Ministry responsible | Ministry of Justice (sentenced prisoners), Ministry of Public Security (pre-trial detainees and persons in administrative detention) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prison administration | Prison Administration Bureau (MoJ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Contact address | No.10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Beijing 100020, China (MoJ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Telephone/fax/website | tel: +86 10 6520 6258 or 6213 (MoJ) fax: +86 10 6520 5866 or 5239 (MoJ) Web: interdiv.moj@263.net.cn |
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| Head of prison administration
(and title) |
Shao Lei (MoJ)
Director-General |
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| Prison population total
(including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners) |
1,640,000
at mid-2012 (Ministry of Justice - sentenced prisoners in Ministry of Justice prisons only, excluding pre-trial detainees and those held in administrative detention.) The Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate reported in 2009 that, in addition to the sentenced prisoners, more than 650,000 were held in detention centres In China. If this is still correct in April 2012 the total prison population in China is more than 2,300,000. |
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| Prison population rate
(per 100,000 of national population) |
121
based on an estimated national population of 1.35 billion at mid-2012 (from United Nations figures) - sentenced prisoners in Ministry of Justice prisons only. (A total prison population of 2,300,000 would raise the prison population rate to 170 per 100,000 of the national population.) |
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| Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners
(percentage of prison population) |
*
(Estimates for the number of pre-trial/remand prisoners vary between 100,000 and 260,000.) |
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| Female prisoners
(percentage of prison population) |
5.5%
(of sentenced prisoners in MoJ prisons, mid-2012) |
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| Juveniles / minors / young prisoners
incl. definition (percentage of prison population) |
1.4%
(of sentenced prisoners in MoJ prisons, 31.12.2005) |
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| Foreign prisoners
(percentage of prison population) |
0.3%
(of sentenced prisoners in MoJ prisons, 2010) |
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| Number of establishments /
institutions |
*
(The Ministry of Justice holds sentenced prisoners in more than 700 prisons. In addition, in 2005 there were 30 jails for juveniles. The Chinese government reported in 2009 that there were also 320 re-education-through-labour camps. The number of pre-trial detention institutions and of special administrative detention facilities for drug offenders and prostitutes is not known.) |
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| Official capacity of prison system | *
(The total capacity of the system is not known but the Supreme People's Procuratorate stated in 2004 that the official capacity of the re-education-through-labour camps was then about 300,000.) |
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| Occupancy level (based on official
capacity) |
*
(The occupancy rate in the re-education-through-labour camps in 2003 was about 87%.) |
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| Recent prison population trend
(year, prison population total, prison population rate) |
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