Crine and Drugs in America

Total Prison Population and Drug-Law Offenders in Prison
	2003-07	2008	2009	2010
*Prison Population in Europe (27) ^1,2**	596,956	623,230	641,845	627,203
Prison Population Rate in Europe	0.12%	0.13%	0.13%	0.13%
*Highest Prison Population Rates*
Lithuania	0.25%	0.23%	0.25%	0.27%
Latvia	0.33%	0.29%	0.31%	0.30%
Estonia	0.34%	0.27%	0.27%	0.26%
Lowest Prison Population Rates
Denmark	0.07%	0.06%	0.07%	0.07%
Slovenia	0.06%	0.07%	0.07%	0.07%
Finland	0.07%	0.07%	0.07%	0.06%
Proportion of Sentenced Prisoners Among Total Prisoners In Europe^1,3	73.8%	74.4%	75.3%	77.7%
*Highest Proportions of Sentenced Prisoners*
Czech Republic	84.9%	88.3%	89.2%	88.8%
Poland	80.0%	88.4%	88.2%	89.0%
Romania	84.8%	89.1%	85.4%	82.9%
*Lowest Proportions of Sentenced Prisoners*
Malta	50.4%	30.7%	36.0%	30.5%
Netherlands	37.3%	35.4%	36.5%	49.6%
Italy	56.8%	43.6%	49.3%	54.2%
Proportion of Sentenced Drug-Law Offenders Among Total Sentenced Prisoners in Europe	17.6%	17.6%	17.6%	18.5%
*Highest Proportion of Drug-Law Offenders*
Malta	32.5%	-	53.4%	-
Greece	50.6%	-	-	52.3%
Italy	33.5%	36.1%	36.9%	38.4%
Luxembourg	31.9%	44.6%	38.7%	36.1%
*Lowest Proportion of Drug-Law Offenders*
Lithuania	4.6%	6.5%	8.4%	1.0%
Hungary	1.9%	2.5%	2.6%	3.1%
Romania	2.5%	4.0%	4.2%	4.3%
Proportion of Sentenced Drug-Law Offenders Among Total Prisoners in Europe⁴ (Sentenced and Pre-Trial)	12.5%	12.1%	12.5%	13.9%
*Highest Proportions of Drug-Law Offenders*
Greece	37.3%	-	-	36.0%
Luxembourg	19.8%	26.4%	21.9%	20.7%
Sweden	18.4%	24.1%	22.9%	22.1%
*Lowest Proportions of Drug-Offenders*
Hungary	1.4%	1.7%	1.8%	2.1%
Romania	1.9%	3.6%	3.6%	3.6%
Slovakia	2.3%	-	5.1%	4.6%

Notes:
^{(1) Total number of prisoners (pre-trial and sentenced prisoners) on 1
September.

(2) In 2010, data for Belgium and England and Wales concern 2009.

(3) In 2010, data for Austria, Belgium and England and Wales concern 2009.
Data missing for other years have been interpolated from adjacent years.

(4) ‘Europe’ refers to the weighted average for EU-27 (excluding Austria
and Poland).

(5) The proportion of sentenced drug-law offenders among the total
sentenced prisoners on 1 September.

*27 is from EU-27, according to the European Commission's Eurostat this
simply refers to the 27-member EU.

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Glossary...}

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/EU#sthash.0I0GQby0.dpuf

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