III.1. Prison facilities under the authority of the Office of the
Secretary General for Prisons (abbreviated as SGIP in
Spanish, hereinafter, SGIP) and the Department of Justice
of the Government of Catalonia
72. As was already declared in the reports from previous years, the Spanish prison population has shown a down ward trend in the last few years, in particular as
regards remand prisoners. In 2012 the total number of inmates has been reduced
by 1,839 inmates, which represents 10.3% accumulated in the last three years. The
table hereinafter represents the evolution of the prison population since year 2000.
The prison population
continues to decrease
Table 27. Evolution of the prison population
80.000
73.558
70.000
60.000
56.096
51.882
50.000
45.104
40.000
47.571
39.013
41.131
48.643
59375 61.054
51.272
64.021
55.049
52.747
67.100
76.079
63.517
73.849
65.548
70.491
63.314
57.725
68.652
59.967 58.590
44.924
30.000
20.000
10.000
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Total national
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Total SGIP
Source: In-house compilation based on data supplied by the SGIP.
For its part, the percentage of remand prisoners has gone from 20.88% at the beginning of 2010 to 18.98% at the end of 2010, then to 17.66% at the end of 2011,
and finally down to 15.86% at the end of 2012.
The number of remand
prisoners has also
decreased
Table 28. Distribution of the prison population at theSGIP and the
Department of Justice of the Government of Catalonia, by
gender and criminal-proceeding status, in 2011 and 2012
SGIP
2011
Men
Women
Total
2012
Men
Women
Total
CATALONIA
Remand
Convicted
Total SGIP
Remand
Convicted
9,529
958
10,487
45,796
3,684
49,480
55,325
4,642
59,967
1,781
177
1,958
8,009
557
8,566
Remand
8,270
852
9,122
THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN
Convicted
45,754
3,714
49,468
Total SGIP
54,024
4,566
58,590
Remand
1,611
158
1,769
Convicted
7,786
507
8,293
Total Catalonia
Total
%
9,790
734
10,524
65,115
5,376
79,491
92.37
7.63
100
9,397
665
10,062
63,421
5,231
68,652
92.39
7.61
100
Total Catalonia
Total
%
77
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