According to the latest* figures, there are 378.657 prisoner in 406 prisons, of which 100 are open prisons, 4 are juvenile reformatories,12 are women’s closed prisons, 8 are women’s open prisons, and 273 are closed juvenile prisons. The total capacity of the prisons is  299.042.

83.447 prisoners stay in open prisons and  295.210 prisoners stay in closed prisons. 322.145 prisoners are incarcerated, while 56.512 are pretrial detainees.

There are 200 LGBTI+, around 11.345 foreign prisoners, There are 269 prisoners with disabilities in prisons: 19 with speech and language disabilities,  42 with visual disabilities, 28 with hearing disabilities, 18 with hearing and speech disabilities and 162 with orthopedic disabilities while 1.453 prisoner aggravated lifers. 5.520 of the prisoners are over 65 years old.

The number of prisoners who can continue their education is 65.969 and there are 58.500 prisoners who have been insured professionally.

3.835 children between the age of 12 -18 are kept in prisons, of which 162 are girls. The number of children between 0-6 ages staying with their mother is 759 among 16.419 female prisoners.

In addition, the subsistence allowance for prisoners who do not have health problems was announced as 83 TL, and for women staying with their children aged 0-6 from 150 TL.

The number of prisoners who lost their lives in prisons of Turkey was 107 in 2018, 95 in 2019 and 128 in 2020 and 101 in 2021 and 108 in 2022