NUMBER OF CONVICTS INCREASED IN 2016 BY 3.4%

Sakstat reported that by the end of 2016, number of convicts made up 15,640 (including 838 women), increasing by 3.4%, if compared with 2015 (15,139), and by 43.3%, if compared with 2012 (10,922).

Probationers accounted in the reporting year for biggest share – 6,730 (decrease in comparison with 2015 – 2.8%, increase in comparison with 2012 – 26.9%), while 3,828 persons were subjected to imprisonment (decrease – 13.8% and 13.1%, respectively).