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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 10 facilities

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

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national average
10 unknown
abolitionist on capital punishment since 1992. Last known execution: 1928.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: 6,281+184.0% over 18y2023: 17,836

Source: unodc

Prisons in Paraguay

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10 facilities in our database.

Casa Virgen de Caacupe

Paraguay · Itauguá

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Centro Educativo Itaugua

Paraguay

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Centro Educativo Sembrador

Paraguay · Villarrica

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Museo de las memorias

Paraguay · Asunción

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Penitenciaría Nacional de Tacumbú

Paraguay

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Penitenciaria Regional Coronel Oviedo

Paraguay

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Penitenciaria Regional de Concepcion

Paraguay

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Penitenciaria Regional de Emboscada "Padre Juan Antonio de la Vega"

Paraguay

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Penitenciaria Regional de Villarrica

Paraguay · Villarrica

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Viñas Cué

Paraguay

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
PRY

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