How many prisons are there in Uruguay?

World Prisons indexes 95 individual facilities in Uruguay. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Uruguay

Q: Does Uruguay have the death penalty?

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

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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 95 facilities

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

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national average

95 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 1907. Last known execution: 1902.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.

1 documented human-rights cases →

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year

2003: 9,207+71.3% over 21y2024: 15,767

Source: unodc

Prisons in Uruguay

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95 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

300 Charles

Uruguay

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Alvarez Cortés Detention Center

Uruguay

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Artillery Group No. 5 Detention Center

Uruguay

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Base Lima Zulu

Uruguay

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Base Valparaiso

Uruguay

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Cabildo jail

Uruguay

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Carancho

Uruguay

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Carcel de Las Rosas

Uruguay

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Carcel del Pueblo

Uruguay

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Carcel de Miguelete

Uruguay

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Carcel Departamental Artigas

Uruguay · Artigas

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Capacity

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Carcel Domingo Arena

Uruguay

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Carcel Las Canitas

Uruguay

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Casa S.A.S.

Uruguay

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Casona de Punta Gorda

Uruguay

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Centro de detención clandestino (Batallón N. °14)

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de Colonia Suarez del Consejo del Nino

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de EFCSA

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de la Base Aerea Boiso Lanza

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de la Base Aerea Santa Bernardina

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de la Brigada de Infanteria No. 4

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de la Comisaria de la ciudad de Carmelo

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de la Comisaria de la ciudad de Chuy

Uruguay

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Centro de detencion de la Comisaria de la ciudad de Rosario

Uruguay

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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.

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Sources

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: URY

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APA

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

Chicago

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

BibTeX

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