ARMENIA’S PRISON POPULATION OVER 3,000
ARMENPRESS
Feb 4, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 4, ARMENPRESS: Armenia’s prison population makes
now 3,543 convicts and detainees incarcerated in 12 correctional
facilities and pre-trial prisons.
Arsen Babayan, a spokesman for the department of correctional
facilities of the justice ministry, told Armenpress that 123 are women
and 53 are juvenile convicts. They are kept at special Abovyan prison.
He said 45 are citizens of the former Soviet Union and 14 are citizens
of other countries. Seventy-seven are sentenced to life in prison.
He said only 570 detainees have the right to participate in the
February 19 presidential election, but their real number will be
clear only one day before the ballot as after court verdicts come
into force they become no longer eligible. Election precincts have
been opened in prisons.