How many prisons are there in Austria?

World Prisons indexes 342 individual facilities in Austria. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Austria

Q: Does Austria have the death penalty?

Austria's death-penalty status is: abolitionist. Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Stub confidence

Auto-created from Wikidata import (no WPB data yet).

Compare Austria

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.

Prison population

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Sentenced + remand

Rate per 100,000

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Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

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At or under capacity

Pre-trial / remand

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Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

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Foreign nationals

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Figures from official sources · methodology

Conditions risk — across 342 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

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national average

342 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 1968. Last known execution: 1950.ICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

39 documented human-rights cases →

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year

2005: 8,956+8.2% over 20y2025: 9,693

Source: unodc / eurostat / Council of Europe SPACE I

Health & mortality

Custodial mortality + prison-health indicators aggregated from national statistics offices, UCLA custodial mortality dataset, and Marshall Project COVID tracking.

Indicators (latest by source)

Mortality Rate
94.32per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hiv Prevalence
201count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hcv Prevalence
824count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Tb Incidence
6count
2020 · source: who-hiped

Prisons in Austria

Browse all 342 →

342 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

Aichhof (Wien-Schwechat) concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Alpenland concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Altes Bezirksgericht und Gefangnis

Austria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Altlichtenwarth concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Altnagelberg concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Alt-Prerau concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Amaliendorf concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Amstetten concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Amstetten II women's concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Angelbach (Großpertholz) concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Anhaltelager Kaisersteinbruch

Austria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Anhaltelager Messendorf

Austria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Anhaltelager WÃ¶llersdorf

Austria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Antonshof (Wien-Schwechat) concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Archaologische Uberreste des KZ-Aussenlagers Aflenz

Austria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Arthof (St. Pantaleon) concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Aschbach Dorf concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Asten correctional facility

Austria · Asten

Type

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Capacity

149

Held

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Austrian Police Detention Centre

Austria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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B8 Bergkristall

Austria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Bachmanning concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Baden concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Bad Ischl concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Bad Ischl (Sägewerk Bachmanning) concentration camp

Austria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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See all 342 prisons in Austria →

Data completeness

10%

Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.

National population: —
Source-verified: —
Source links: 0 cited

Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

No structured citations yet.
See /data-sources for our methodology.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: AUT

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Austria — prison statistics. Retrieved July 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/austria

Chicago

"Austria — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed July 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/austria.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-austria,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Austria — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/austria},
  urldate = {2026-07-20}
}