Purposes

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

Institutions that intervene

MINT, Secretariat for Prison Services, Rehabilitation and Juvenile Justice of Generalitat de Cataluña.

General description (main variables)

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

Collective

Penal (prison) centres

Frequency of data collection

Mensual, semanal

Breakdown

Centros penitenciarios

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 2009-2012  (in thousands euros)

4,039.45