Bahrain

Total prison population:

3,485

Country: Bahrain
Ministry responsible: Ministry of Interior
Prison administration: General Directorate of Reformation and Rehabilitation
Contact address: Bahrain
Telephone: +97317844444
Fax: +97317840131
Email: infogdrr@moipolice.bh
Head of prison administration: Brigadier General Abdul Salam Al Arifi, Director General

Prison population data

Prison population total (including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners)	3,485 at 2017 (via U.S. State Department human rights report)
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)	234 based on an estimated national population of 1.49 million at 2017 (United Nations figures)
Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners (percentage of prison population)	25.7% (2017)
Female prisoners (percentage of prison population)	Circac. 4.7% (2015)
Juveniles / minors / young prisoners incl. definition (percentage of prison population)	Circac. 3.4% (2015 - under 18)
Foreign prisoners (percentage of prison population)	Circac. 23.7% (2015)
Number of establishments / institutions	4 (2015 - Dry Dock detention centre, Jau prison, women's detention centre, reform and rehabilitation centre for women.)
Official capacity of prison system	Circac. 3,455 (2015)
Occupancy level (based on official capacity)	Circac. 110.2% (2015)

Prison population trend

Year	Prison population total	Prison population rate
2003	437	57
2004	701	85
2010	1,100	89
2012	2,307	177
2015	c. 3,795	c. 281

Prison population total

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.

BAHRAIN

Year	Number of female prisoners	Percentage of total prison population	Female prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)
2003 2009 2013	101 57 189	23.1% 11.4% 4.7%	12.7 4.8 14.1
2015	178	c. 4.7%	c. 13.2

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 trend up to 2000

The figures below give an indication of the prison population trend in the years up to 2000. They supplement the more recent figures that are shown at the foot of the Overview page and in the graphs below.