Tendencias mundiales en prisiones 2023

PRI y TIJ ofrecen una visión general de la situación actual y destacan cómo la criminalización de las drogas sigue siendo un factor clave que contribuye al aumento de la población carcelaria mundial y al hacinamiento en las prisiones. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Global Prison Trends 2023 is PRI’s annual flagship report, published with the Thailand Institute of Justice, examining key trends and challenges in prison systems worldwide. This 2023 edition exposes the impact of economic crises and rising costs of food, transport and energy bills on prison systems, detained persons, and their families.

Two years after the adoption of the Kyoto Declaration and the UN Common Position on Incarceration, with a record 11.5 million people in prison worldwide and 120 countries operating above capacity, the report shows little progress has been made in moving away from using imprisonment as the ‘default’ response and towards improved proportionality in sentencing.