According to the latest* figures, there are 356.865 prisoner in 272 prisons, of which  100 are open prisons, 4 are juvenile reformatories,11 are women’s closed prisons, 8 are women’s open prisons, and  are closed juvenile prisons. The total capacity of the prisons is 295.328.

79.344 prisoners stay in open prisons and 277.521 prisoners stay in closed prisons. 304.799 prisoners are incarcerated, while 52.066 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.  5.235 of the prisoners are over 65 years old.

The number of prisoners who can continue their education is 39,519 and there are 58.500 prisoners who have been insured professionally.

3.432 children between the age of 12 -18 are kept in prisons, of which 158 are girls. The number of children between 0-6 ages staying with their mother is 552 among 15.364 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 2019, 95 in 2020 and 128 in 2021 and 101 in 2022 and 108 in 2023