How many prisons are there in Greece?

World Prisons indexes 60 individual facilities in Greece. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Greece

Q: Does Greece have the death penalty?

Greece'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 Greece

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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 60 facilities

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

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national average

60 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 2004. Last known execution: 1972.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.

231 documented human-rights cases →

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year

2003: 8,726+32.8% over 22y2025: 11,586

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)

Hcv Prevalence
36count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Tb Incidence
6count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mental Health
1,410count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hiv Prevalence
110count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mortality Rate
52.73per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped

Prisons in Greece

Browse all 60 →

60 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

Abandoned military prison

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Agrotike Phulake Agias

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Agrotikes Phulakes Tirunthas

Greece · Î¤Î¯ÏÏÎ½Î¸Î±

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Agrotiko Katastema Krateses Agias

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Akronafplia concentration camp

Greece

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Amygdaleza detention center

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Anafi Island concentration camp

Greece

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Averof prison

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Desmoterion

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Diavata Prison

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Dikastike Phulake Neapoleos

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Dikastikes Phulakes Diabaton

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Dikastikes Phulakes Naupliou

Greece · ÎÎ±ÏÏÎ»Î¹Î¿

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Dikastikes Phulakes Staurakiou

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Drama Prison

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Eidiko Kentro Krateses Neon Bolou

Greece · ÎÏÎ»Î¿Ï

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Former Medrese in the Ancient Roman Agora

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Geniko Katastema Krateses Domokou

Greece · ÎÎ¿Î¼Î¿ÎºÏÏ

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Grevena Prison

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Gyaros prison

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Haidari concentration camp

Greece

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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Heptapyrgion

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Judicial Prisons of Corinth

Greece

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kalavryta concentration camp

Greece

Type

Concentration camp

Capacity

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Held

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See all 60 prisons in Greece →

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: GRC

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APA

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

Chicago

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

BibTeX

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