Cyprus’ prison the most overcrowded in EU

Cyprus’ prison the most overcrowded in EU

Prison cells in Cyprus are on average the most overcrowded in the entire European Union, according to data released by the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat on Thursday. Cyprus’ prison has an occupancy rate of 227.6 per cent – a figure which dwarfs the second-highest rate of 134.2 per cent, recorded in Slovenia, and France’s rate of 129.3, which sees it rank third. A rate of over 100 per cent means that a prison is holding more inmates than it was…