Insights
A handful of curated views over our 31,379 facilities and 162 countries. Hand-built rather than computed in JavaScript on every load — refreshed every 30 minutes.
Facilities indexed
Country-linked
Tracked prisoners (top 15 countries)
Countries with stale data (≥1 year)
More leaderboards
Capacity ≥ 50 beds, current population > capacity. Sorted by occupancy %.
Top 20 by our 0–100 risk score (combines overcrowding, oversight reports, structural factors, deaths, and conditions narrative). Methodology.
Countries where our last source verification is > 1 year old, sorted by prison population. High up here = priority for the next refresh.
Last 20 substantive updates from our importers. New-facility events are suppressed here (otherwise the Wikidata sweep would drown the rest).
Working on research that needs a custom slice? The full dataset is queryable via /api/v1 and downloadable from /api/exports. For new dashboards, drop a note via /data-sources.