The overall incarceration rate remained stable in Europe between 2018 and 2019, according to the Council of Europe's annual penal statistics published on Tuesday 7 April. These show only a very slight increase (from 104 to 104.5 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants) in the 45 prison administrations that provided accurate data for these two years.
On 31 January 2019, there were 1,540,484 prisoners in the 50 prison administrations of the 47 Member States for which figures are available,...