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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

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national average
abolitionist on capital punishment since 1998. Last known execution: 1991.ICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year
2003: 4,576-64.2% over 22y2025: 1,637

Source: 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

—

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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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
EST

Recent reports

  • 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

  • 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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@misc{worldprisons-estonia,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Estonia — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/estonia},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
}