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Unsentenced Detainees As A Proportion Of Overall Prison Population
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16.3.2 Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population
Metadata
| Relevance/rationale of the indicator (resp. why the indicator was chosen to measure the target and how it is suitable for these purposes) | The indicator is premised on aspects of the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. From that perspective, extensive use of pre-sentence detention when not necessary, can divert criminal justice system resources, and exert financial and unemployment burdens on the accused and his or her family. Measuring the relative extent to which pre-sentence detention is used can provide the evidence to assist countries in lowering such burdens and ensuring its proportionate use. |
| Target value of the indicator and its evaluation | |
| Definition | Proportion of the number of non-convicted (accused) detained in custody in the total number of prisoners on the decisive date 31 December of the given year. |
| Measuring unit | Number in units, % |
| Indicator disaggregation | |
| Reference period (resp. the period to which the indicator relates) | Year |
| Related geographical area | CZ (NUTS 0) |
| Comment | Persons pre-arrested are not included (This temporary restriction of freedom by the police can last a maximum of 72 hours, after which the person must either be taken into custody based on a judge's decision or released.). Data before 1999 are probably traceable in older statistical yearbooks of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic. They are published on the website retrospectively until 1999 and the yearbooks 1998, 1997 and 1996 are being prepared. The definition of the indicator is quite clear, data throughout the time series should be fully comparable. |
| Update periodicity | Annually |
| Time coverage since | 2005 |
| Time coverage until | 2022 |
| Time series available at the data provider since | 1999 |
| Data publication date (resp. the date when the data provider publishes (regularly) data; it is given in the format T + the number of days, months or years when T is the end of the reference period) | January |
| Contact point - data provider - e-mail | jitka.wichova@czso.cz |
| Contact point - data provider - name | Jitka Wichová |
| Data source | The Prison Service of the Czech Republic |
| Data origin | Statistical Yearbooks of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic |
| Links to detailed metadata or methodology | https://www.vscr.cz/informacni-servis/statistiky/statisticke-rocenky-vezenske-sluzby/ https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-16-03-02.pdf |
| Links to international comparison | https://dataunodc.un.org/data/prison/total%20persons%20held%20unsentenced |