How many prisons are there in Estonia?

World Prisons indexes 45 individual facilities in Estonia. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Estonia

Q: Does Estonia have the death penalty?

Estonia'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 Estonia

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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 45 facilities

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

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national average

45 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 1998. Last known execution: 1991.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.

29 documented human-rights cases →

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year

2003: 4,576-64.2% over 22y2025: 1,637

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)

Hiv Prevalence
254count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Tb Incidence
5count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hcv Prevalence
558count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mortality Rate
128.15per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped

Prisons in Estonia

Browse all 45 →

45 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

Aseri concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Auvere concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Budivnitstvo 447 i VTT

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Budivnitstvo 907 i VTT

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Ereda concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Goldfields concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Hungerburg concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Illuka Varjupaigataotlejate Vastuvotukeskus

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Jägala concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Jõhvi concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Karzer of the University of Tartu

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kerstenhof concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Kerstowa concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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KGB prison cells

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kinnipidamiskeskus

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kivioli concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Klooga concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Kriegsgefangenenlager Priimetsa

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kuremäe concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Lagedi concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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LasnamÃ¤e prison

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Narva concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Pankewitza concentration camp

Estonia

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Patarei prison

Estonia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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See all 45 prisons in Estonia →

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: EST

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Estonia — prison statistics. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/estonia

Chicago

"Estonia — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/estonia.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-estonia,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Estonia — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/estonia},
  urldate = {2026-07-21}
}