Sint Maarten (Netherlands)

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CountrySint Maarten (Netherlands)
Ministry responsible
Ministry of Justice
Prison administration
Point Blanche Prison and House of Detention (Strafgevangenis en Huis van Bewaring Point Blanche)
Contact address
Mountaindoove Road 48, Point Blanche, St Maarten
Telephone
+1 721 543 0280
Fax
+1 721 543 0282
Website
Head of prison administration (and title)
Aartwicht Bell
Director
Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners)
87
at January 2023 (via the Prison Inmates Association)
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)
196
based on an estimated national population of 44,500 at January 2023 (from United Nations figures)
Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners (percentage of prison population)
18.1%
(9.7.2007)
Female prisoners (percentage of prison population)
8.0%
(January 2023)
Juveniles / minors / young prisoners incl. definition (percentage of prison population)
1.8%
(May 2014 - under 18)
Foreign prisoners (percentage of prison population)
20.2%
(9.7.2007)
Number of establishments / institutions
1
(2019 - Point Blanche prison)
Official capacity of prison system
80
(August 2020)
Occupancy level (based on official capacity)
96.3%
(August 2020)
Prison population trend
(year, prison population total, prison population rate)
2002 129 396
2007 94 235
2012 180 405
2014 161 347
2017 120 293
2020 77 179
2002 129 396
2007 94 235
2012 180 405
2014 161 347
2017 120 293
2020 77 179

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. 

                                         SINT MAARTEN (NETHERLANDS)

Year

Number of
female
prisoners

Percentage
of total
prison population

Female prison
population rate
(per 100,000 of
national population)

2002
2007
2011
2014

7
7
4
8

5.4%
7.4%
2.9%
5.0%

21.5
17.5
9.3
17.2

2023

7

8.0%

15.7

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.)

Prison population total
Prison population rate