Strasbourg, 08/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - The SPACE study (Statistiques Pénales Annuelles du Conseil de l'Europe, or Annual Penal Statistics of the Council of Europe), which was carried out on behalf of the Council of Europe (CoE) by the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law of the University of Lausanne, was published on Tuesday 8 March and confirms the drop in prison overcrowding.
The figures, which were collected from 50 of the 52 prison services of the 47 member states of the CoE on...