22/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - According to a Eurostat press release on 19 June, there were around 607,000 prisoners in the EU27 between 2005-2007, equivalent to about 123 prisoners per 100 000 inhabitants. The Official Statistics Office of the EU declared that, “measuring tendencies in crime in the EU remains a difficult task, due to the differences in the data collection sources”. The highest average prisoner rates over the period 2005 to 2007 were recorded in Estonia (302 prisoners per...