International Centre for Prison Studies
| Country | CUBA | |||||||||
| Ministry responsible | Ministry of the Interior | |||||||||
| Prison administration | Direccion de Carceles y Prisiones | |||||||||
| Contact address | Plaza de la Revolución, La Habana (Havana), Cuba | |||||||||
| Telephone/fax/website | tel: +53 7 301566 |
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| Prison population total
(including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners)
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57,337
at May 2012 (El diario oficial Granma)
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| Prison population rate
(per 100,000 of national population)
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510
based on an estimated national population of 11.25 million at May
2012 (from United Nations figures)
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| Number of establishments /
institutions
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*
(Different sources quote different totals. Two separate lists of
prisons, presented province by province, contain 545 and 582 prisons.)
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| Recent prison population trend
(year, prison population total, prison population rate)
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