| Country | Oman |
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| Ministry responsible |
Royal Oman Police
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|---|---|
| Prison administration |
Directorate General of Prisons
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| Telephone |
+968 550877 or 551168
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| Fax |
+968 551159
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| Website | |
| Head of prison administration (and title) | Colonel Ali bin Hassan Al Balushi
Director General of Prisons
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| Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners) | 1 960
at November 2015 (via Gulf News)
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|---|---|
| Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population) | 46
based on an estimated national population of 4.22 million at November 2015 (from United Nations figures)
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| Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 5.6%
(2002)
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| Female prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 4.5%
(2002)
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| Juveniles / minors / young prisoners incl. definition (percentage of prison population) | 3.8%
(2002 - juveniles)
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| Foreign prisoners (percentage of prison population) | 30.3%
(2002)
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| Number of establishments / institutions | 3
(2000 - 2 adult institutions and one for juveniles)
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| Prison population trend (year, prison population total, prison population rate) |
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Plan to introduce higher education courses for convicts in Oman's Central Prison
Call to change attitude toward female inmates in Oman
Samayil Central Prison Juvenile delinquents housed in separate quarters: Royal Oman Police
Call to allow conjugal visit facility in Oman prisons
Status of prison inmates reviewed
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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.
OMAN
Year | Number of | Percentage | Female prison |
2000 | 101 | 5.0% | 4.6 |
2002 | 55 | 4.5% | 2.4 |
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.)