In 2020, the overall incarceration rate (i.e. the number of prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants) continued the slight decline that began in 2013, according to a SPACE Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Population survey from the Council of Europe conducted, as it is every year, by the University of Lausanne and published on Thursday 8 April.
This rate is 103.2 in the 51 prison administrations for which data were available (down 1.7% from 2019). In 2013 it was 131, so the overall decrease is...