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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
45 unknown
abolitionist on capital punishment since 2021. Last known execution: 2003.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.
2 documented human-rights cases →

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year
2005: 52,203-38.4% over 19y2024: 32,171

Source: unodc

Prisons in Kazakhstan

Browse all 45 →

45 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

AK-159/11 mekemesi

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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AK-159/9 mekemesi

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Akmol Labour Camp for Wives of Traitors of the Motherland

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Aktyubinlag

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Detskaia koloniia 156/22

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ermakovskoe LO

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Guba

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ishki ister ministrligi K'ylmystyk'-atk'aru zhuiesi komitetinin' RU-170/2 mekemesi.

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ishki ister ministrligi K'ylmystyk'-atk'aru zhuiesi komitetinin' RU-170/Kh mekemesi

Kazakhstan · Зачаганск

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ispravitel'naia koloniia uchrezhdenie AK 159/18

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ispravitel'noe uchrezhdenie AK-159/22

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ispravitel'noe uchrezhdenie KA-168/1

Kazakhstan · Ақтөбе

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ispravitel'noe uchrezhdenie KA-168/5

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ispravitel'no-trudovaia koloniia (ITK) No. 35 (uchrezhdenie OV-156/15)

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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KA-168/2 tuzeu mekemesi

Kazakhstan · Ақтөбе

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Karagandinstroi

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Karlag

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kimpersailag

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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KPZ No. 20

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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LA-155\11

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Maikainlag

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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OV 156/1

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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OV 156/3 (30) (obshchego rezhima)

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Pavlodarlag

Kazakhstan

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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See all 45 prisons in Kazakhstan →

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
KAZ

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