How many prisons are there in Bulgaria?

World Prisons indexes 37 individual facilities in Bulgaria. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Bulgaria

Q: Does Bulgaria have the death penalty?

Bulgaria'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 Bulgaria

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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 37 facilities

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

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national average

37 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 1998. Last known execution: 1989.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.

206 documented human-rights cases →

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year

2003: 10,066-46.3% over 22y2025: 5,404

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
16per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped
Tb Incidence
2count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mental Health
159count
2020 · source: who-hiped

Prisons in Bulgaria

Browse all 37 →

37 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

Belene labour camp

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Type

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Capacity

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Held

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bivshe TVU

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Bobov Dol Prison

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

550

Held

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Burgas Prison

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

750

Held

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Dupnitsa concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Gara Bov concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Gonda voda

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Gonda Voda concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Gorna Dzhumaya concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Gorna Oryahovitsa concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Ihtiman concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Kailŭka concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Krastopole Concentration Camp

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kremikovski zatvor

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Krestopole concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Kutsiyan

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Lovech Prison

Bulgaria · ÐÐ¾Ð²ÐµÑ

Type

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Capacity

825

Held

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Pazardzhik Prison

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

457

Held

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Pazardzhishki zatvor

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Pleven Prison

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Plovdiv Prison

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ribaritsa concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Shumen concentration camp

Bulgaria

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Sliven Prison

Bulgaria

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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See all 37 prisons in Bulgaria →

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: BGR

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APA

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

Chicago

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

BibTeX

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