Purposes

Quantitative knowledge of the prison population and the number of admissions during the year.

Institutions that intervene

MI

General description (main variables)

Age of the inmates, sex, criminal process situation, type of crime, Spanish or foreign nationality.

Collective

Penal (prison) centres

Frequency of data collection

Mensual

Breakdown

Centros penitenciarios

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 1997-2000  (in thousands pesetas)

519.25