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73 facilities plotted. Colour-coded by security level.
All countries
Afghanistan (10)
Albania (34)
Algeria (146)
Andorra (2)
Argentina (271)
Armenia (4)
Australia (232)
Austria (305)
Azerbaijan (28)
Bahamas (4)
Bangladesh (60)
Barbados (1)
Belarus (142)
Belgium (79)
Belize (2)
Benin (11)
Bolivia, Plurinational State of (25)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (22)
Botswana (8)
Brazil (656)
Bulgaria (36)
Burkina Faso (6)
Cabo Verde (4)
Cambodia (22)
Cameroon (23)
Canada (220)
Central African Republic (2)
Chad (3)
Chile (150)
China (976)
Colombia (159)
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the (25)
Côte d'Ivoire (18)
Croatia (46)
Cuba (77)
Curaçao (1)
Cyprus (3)
Czechia (161)
Denmark (73)
Dominica (1)
Ecuador (26)
Egypt (41)
El Salvador (18)
Equatorial Guinea (2)
Eritrea (6)
Estonia (39)
Ethiopia (10)
Faroe Islands (2)
Finland (69)
France (558)
Gabon (2)
Gambia (3)
Georgia (19)
Germany (978)
Greece (60)
Greenland (11)
Grenada (1)
Guatemala (7)
Guernsey (3)
Guinea (10)
Guyana (2)
Haiti (15)
Hungary (69)
Iceland (7)
India (296)
Indonesia (774)
Iran (207)
Iraq (46)
Ireland (27)
Isle of Man (2)
Israel (41)
Italy (351)
Jamaica (12)
Japan (155)
Jersey (1)
Jordan (13)
Kazakhstan (45)
Kenya (32)
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (38)
Kyrgyzstan (15)
Latvia (32)
Lebanon (8)
Libya (16)
Liechtenstein (1)
Lithuania (62)
Luxembourg (8)
Madagascar (21)
Malawi (8)
Malaysia (57)
Maldives (3)
Mali (10)
Malta (5)
Mauritania (3)
Mauritius (8)
Mexico (142)
Moldova, Republic of (29)
Monaco (1)
Mongolia (4)
Montenegro (5)
Morocco (60)
Mozambique (9)
Myanmar (68)
Namibia (11)
Nauru (3)
Nepal (25)
Netherlands (40)
New Zealand (38)
Nicaragua (5)
Niger (17)
Nigeria (187)
North Macedonia (8)
Norway (113)
Pakistan (49)
Palestine, State of (2)
Panama (10)
Papua New Guinea (23)
Paraguay (10)
Peru (72)
Philippines (179)
Poland (844)
Portugal (128)
Romania (90)
Russia (1209)
Rwanda (7)
Saint Lucia (1)
San Marino (1)
Saudi Arabia (17)
Senegal (16)
Serbia (27)
Sierra Leone (8)
Singapore (8)
Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (1)
Slovakia (54)
Slovenia (18)
Somalia (6)
South Africa (134)
South Korea (101)
Spain (240)
Sri Lanka (18)
Sudan (6)
Suriname (1)
Sweden (90)
Switzerland (108)
Syrian Arab Republic (24)
Taiwan, Province of China (75)
Tajikistan (8)
Thailand (96)
Timor-Leste (5)
Togo (9)
Tunisia (37)
Türkiye (277)
Turkmenistan (9)
Uganda (31)
Ukraine (356)
United Kingdom (584)
United States (3135)
Uruguay (95)
Uzbekistan (26)
Venezuela (44)
Vietnam (57)
Yemen (16)
Zimbabwe (10)
All security levels
Administrative
Closed
High
Low
Maximum
Medium
Minimum
Minimum/Medium
Mixed
Multi-level
N/A
Special regime
Supermax
Supermax / Maximum
All types
Category A
Category C
Central prison
Centre de détention
Centre pénitentiaire
Class A
Closed female
Closed female + YOI
Community corrections
Decommissioned historic
Decommissioned historic / World Heritage Site
Detention
Developmental disability programme
EPM (mineurs)
Federal
Federal (decommissioned, now archive)
Federal District complex
Federal Medical Center
Federal Transfer Center
Federal camp
Federal female
Federal maximum-security
Federal medical centre
Federal medium-security
Federal penal colony
Federal penal colony (decommissioned)
Federal pretrial
Federal — FCC
Federal — FCI
Federal — USP
Female + YOI
Female remand
Frauenvollzug
Geriatric Facility
High security
High-security
Immigration removal
Indigenous healing lodge
Indigenous healing lodge (s.81)
Intermediate sanction facility
Jugendstrafvollzug
Jugendstrafvollzug (Youth)
Justizvollzugsanstalt
Justizvollzugsanstalt (annex)
Local
Local jail
Maison centrale
Maison centrale (femmes)
Maison d'arrêt
Maison d'arrêt (decommissioned)
Maison d'arrêt (remand)
Maximum
Maximum security
Maximum-security
Medical facility
Medium security
Medium security (training)
Mega-prison
Mental-health focus
Mental-health step-down
Military / civilian
Military detention
Minimum security
Minimum security (farm)
Minimum security (women)
Minimum/Medium
Ministry of Public Security
Mixed-level complex
Multi-level
Multi-level (the ACT's only adult prison)
Multi-level (women)
Multi-level women's
Multi-purpose
National
Offener Vollzug (Open prison)
Open (Cat D)
Open female (Cat D)
Open prison
Penitentiary
Pre-release (women)
Pre-release centre
Prison/ISF
Private Multi-Use
Provincial
Quartier femmes
Rapid build (RBP)
Remand
Remand/Multi-level
Remote watch house
Residential program
Special handling
Specialist Aboriginal unit
Specialist programs
Specialist rehabilitation
State
State (decommissioned)
State complex
State female
State male
State maximum-security
State maximum-security (RDD)
State penitentiary
State pretrial
State pretrial complex
State prison
Substance abuse felony punishment
Transition/Pre-release
Treatment centre
Untersuchungshaft (Remand)
YOI
All
co-gender
female
juvenile-male
male
mixed
Any risk tier
Critical concern
High concern
Elevated concern
Moderate concern
Low concern
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