Estonia
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Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.
Prison population
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Sentenced + remand
Rate per 100,000
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Per 100,000 residents
Occupancy
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At or under capacity
Pre-trial / remand
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Share not yet sentenced
Female prisoners
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Foreign nationals
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Figures from official sources · methodology
Conditions risk — across 45 facilities
Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk
Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.
Prison population over time
Annual figures, latest survey yearSource: unodc / eurostat / Council of Europe SPACE I
Health & mortality
Custodial mortality + prison-health indicators aggregated from national statistics offices, UCLA custodial mortality dataset, and Marshall Project COVID tracking.
Indicators (latest by source)
Hiv Prevalence
254count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Tb Incidence
5count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hcv Prevalence
558count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mortality Rate
128.15per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped
Prisons in Estonia
Browse all 45 →45 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.
Aseri concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Auvere concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Budivnitstvo 447 i VTT
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Budivnitstvo 907 i VTT
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Ereda concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Goldfields concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Hungerburg concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Illuka Varjupaigataotlejate Vastuvotukeskus
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Jägala concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Jõhvi concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Karzer of the University of Tartu
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Kerstenhof concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Kerstowa concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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KGB prison cells
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Kinnipidamiskeskus
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Kivioli concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Klooga concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Kriegsgefangenenlager Priimetsa
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Kuremäe concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Lagedi concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Lasnamäe prison
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Narva concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Pankewitza concentration camp
Estonia
Type
Concentration camp
Capacity
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Held
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Patarei prison
Estonia
Type
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Capacity
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Held
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Data completeness
10%Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.
- National population
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- Source-verified
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- Source links
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Sources
Direct citations for the figures on this page.
- No structured citations yet.
- See /data-sources for our methodology.
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- EST
Recent reports
- Karzer of the University of Tartu6 Jul 2026
e art group could help in making exercise boxes more attractive. 2 Cooperation with art and design university students could also be considered. On 2 June 2022, the Ministry of Justice sent to the Chancellor a Draft Act for amending several laws, under which it is planned to create a possibility for convicted and remand prisoners to also meet their next of kin via a video link. This is a significant development. Unfortunately, to date Tallinn Prison has been forcing children coming for a visit with parents to undergo a full strip search even though I have repeatedly asked the prison not to do so (see e.g. the recommendations to Tallinn Prison of 20 January 2020 No 7-7/191450/2000290 and 5 November 2019 No 7-4/191395/1905411). According to information available to the Chancellor, prisons (including Tallinn Prison) have subjected children to this kind of search even after the inspection visit although Tallinn Court of Appeal on 28 February 2022 in case No 3-21-161 held that such a measure was unlawful. I emphasise once again that since a prisoner is searched both before and after meeting with the child, a strip search as a measure that degrades a child’s dignity and overshadows the visit with the parent in prison is neither necessary nor acceptable.
NPM-ee-chancellor · source
- Tallinna Vangla1 Jan 2024
works in correct ional education, ICERI2015 Proceedings, 2015. 6 Vt nt õiguskantsleri 2022. aastal Tallinna Vanglasse tehtud kontrollkäigu kokkuvõtet (p 7). Teiste riikide kogemusi kirjeldavates materjalides on välja toodud, et interneti kasutamisega kaasnevate ohtude maandamiseks võib kasutada turvalisi arvutiterminale, kus kinnipeetaval puudub võimalus USB-avadele ligi pääseda. Ka on peetud võimalikuks blokeerida erinevaid funktsioone: nt tar nt õiguskantsleri 2021. aastal Viru Vanglasse tehtud kontrollkäigu kokkuvõtet (p 9) ja 2022. aastal Tallinna Vanglasse tehtud kontrollkäigu kokkuvõtet (p 8). 8 Office of Inspector of Custodial Services, The Digital Divide: Access to digital technology for people in custody, 2018, lk 2−3; N. Champion, K. Edgar, Through the Gateway: How computers can transform rehabilitation, Prison Reform Trust, 2013, lk 6. 9 P. Puolakka, Towards digitalisation of prisons: Finland’s Smart Prison Project, Penal Reform International, 2021. 10 Vt ka E. S. Baldursson, V. Karsikas, K. Kuivajärvi, Nordic Prison Education – A Lifelong Learning Perspective, 2009; The Center for Social Justice, Digital Technology in prisons. Unlocking relationships, learning and skills in UK prisons, 2021, lk 8-12; K. Opaas Haugli, E. M. Toreld, A. L. Svalastog, Maintaining normality when serving a prison sentence in the digital society, Croatian Medical Journal, 2018, lk 335–339; Prisoner Learning Alliance, The digital divide. Lessons from prisons abroad, 2020; A. Kerr, M. [...]
NPM-ee-chancellor · source
- Tallinna Vangla haigla1 Jan 2024
works in correct ional education, ICERI2015 Proceedings, 2015. 6 Vt nt õiguskantsleri 2022. aastal Tallinna Vanglasse tehtud kontrollkäigu kokkuvõtet (p 7). Teiste riikide kogemusi kirjeldavates materjalides on välja toodud, et interneti kasutamisega kaasnevate ohtude maandamiseks võib kasutada turvalisi arvutiterminale, kus kinnipeetaval puudub võimalus USB-avadele ligi pääseda. Ka on peetud võimalikuks blokeerida erinevaid funktsioone: nt tar nt õiguskantsleri 2021. aastal Viru Vanglasse tehtud kontrollkäigu kokkuvõtet (p 9) ja 2022. aastal Tallinna Vanglasse tehtud kontrollkäigu kokkuvõtet (p 8). 8 Office of Inspector of Custodial Services, The Digital Divide: Access to digital technology for people in custody, 2018, lk 2−3; N. Champion, K. Edgar, Through the Gateway: How computers can transform rehabilitation, Prison Reform Trust, 2013, lk 6. 9 P. Puolakka, Towards digitalisation of prisons: Finland’s Smart Prison Project, Penal Reform International, 2021. 10 Vt ka E. S. Baldursson, V. Karsikas, K. Kuivajärvi, Nordic Prison Education – A Lifelong Learning Perspective, 2009; The Center for Social Justice, Digital Technology in prisons. Unlocking relationships, learning and skills in UK prisons, 2021, lk 8-12; K. Opaas Haugli, E. M. Toreld, A. L. Svalastog, Maintaining normality when serving a prison sentence in the digital society, Croatian Medical Journal, 2018, lk 335–339; Prisoner Learning Alliance, The digital divide. Lessons from prisons abroad, 2020; A. Kerr, M. [...]
NPM-ee-chancellor · source
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Estonia — prison statistics},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/estonia},
urldate = {2026-10-15}
}