| Country | Comoros |
|---|
| Ministry responsible |
Ministère de la Justice, de l’Administration Pénitentiaire et des Affaires Islamique
|
|---|---|
| Prison administration |
Direction des Affaires Pénitentiaires
|
| Contact address |
Maison d'arrêt Moroni, Moroni, Comoros
|
| Telephone |
+269 74 64 41
|
| Head of prison administration (and title) | Soilihi Ali Saïd
Directeur Général
|
| Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners) | 422
at 2023 (Government of Comoros)
|
|---|---|
| Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population) | 46
based on an estimated national population of 927,000 at 2023 (from United Nations figures)
|
| Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 43.6%
(2023)
|
| Female prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 1.6%
(September 2021)
|
| Juveniles / minors / young prisoners incl. definition (percentage of prison population) | 3.9%
(September 2021 - minors)
|
| Foreign prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 7.7%
(October 2014)
|
| Number of establishments / institutions | 3
(2021 - prisons in Moroni, on Moheli and on Anjouan)
|
| Official capacity of prison system | 60
(September 2019 - capacity of the national prison in Moroni)
|
| Occupancy level (based on official capacity) | 161.7%
(September 2019 - occupancy level in Moroni prison)
|
| Prison population trend (year, prison population total, prison population rate) |
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|---|
Comoros: ICRC and government sign prison visits agreement
Comoros - Improving Prison Facilities
US State Department Human Rights Country Report 2013: Comoros
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.
COMOROS
Year | Number of | Percentage | Female prison |
2010 | 2 | 1.5% | 0.3 |
2021 | 6 | 1.6% | 0.7 |
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.)