How many prisons are there in Luxembourg?

World Prisons indexes 8 individual facilities in Luxembourg. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Luxembourg

Q: Does Luxembourg have the death penalty?

Luxembourg'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).

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Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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 8 facilities

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

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national average

8 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 1979. Last known execution: 1949.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.

7 documented human-rights cases →

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year

2004: 602+24.4% over 21y2025: 749

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)

Tb Incidence
3count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hiv Prevalence
6count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hcv Prevalence
82count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mortality Rate
200.4per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped

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Held

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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

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: LUX

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APA

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

Chicago

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

BibTeX

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

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