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Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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 46 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

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national average
46 unknown
retentionist on capital punishment. Last known execution: 2024.Methods: hangingICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): not a signatory

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

Executions by year (Amnesty International)
  • 2019
    100
  • 2020
    45
  • 2021
    17
  • 2023
    16
  • 2024
    63
Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.
1 documented human-rights cases →

Prisons in Iraq

Browse all 46 →

46 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

Adult Rehabilitation

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Al Harithiya Prison

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Badush Prison

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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baendykhnaey qaeLy chaemchaemL

Iraq

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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baendykhnaey qaeLy swwsY

Iraq

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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baendykhnaey swsY

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Baghdad Central Prison

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Camp Bucca

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Camp Cropper

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Camp Whitehorse

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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chkhszY gaewrn

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Detention Facility - 2007

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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duhok prison

Iraq · دهۆک

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Capacity

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Held

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grtn w gwstnaewae

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Iskbarat Prison

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Kadhimiyya Women's Prison

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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kany goma prison

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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Karkh Juvenile Prison

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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lkhnq

Iraq

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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mdrs@ SlH lblGyn / lrshd

Iraq

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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mdrs@ t'hyl lSbyn

Iraq

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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mdrs@ t'hyl lSbyn / lrshd

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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MOI 2 NP Detention Facility

Iraq

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Capacity

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Held

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mrkz ltdryb w lthyl dy'r@ lSlH w lsjwn lj`yfr

Iraq

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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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  • See /data-sources for our methodology.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
IRQ

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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Iraq — prison statistics. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/iraq
Chicago
"Iraq — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/iraq.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-iraq,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Iraq — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/iraq},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
}