Total prison population:
Estimate
c.
500
- Country
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ministry responsible
- Ministerio de Justicia, Culto e Instituciones Penitenciarias
- Contact address
-
Equatorial Guinea
- Head of prison administration
-
Pascasio Efa Obama Nchama, Director General de Instituciones Penitenciarias
Prison population data
| Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners) |
Circac. 500
at 2015 (via US State Department human rights report)
|
|---|---|
| Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population) |
Circac. 63
based on an estimated national population of 799,000 at mid-2015 (from United Nations figures)
|
| Female prisoners (percentage of prison population) |
5.0%
(2015)
|
| Number of establishments / institutions |
15
(2022 - three prisons, in Bata, Evinayong and Malabo (Black Beach), and twelve detention centres)
|
| Occupancy level (based on official capacity) |
No official figures have been traced but according to the U.S. State Department human rights report for 2020 the physical conditions in the prisons and detention centres are life-threatening.
|
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