does anyone have recapture rates ? that would also be interesting.
Does it really mean prison escape or is not coming back from outside visits included?
El Chapo would be proud of those red countries.
Lmaoo. Most of our escapees were just given the opportunity to escape on a silver plater. “you are convicted of asault and murder? have a weekend out!” “seriously?” “oh yeah, visit your family, party, have a blast. We won’t even monitor you”
“need to go to a hospital, funeral? No problem, we won’t even give a shit. Just pick up your phone if we call, no monitoring”
Does this include house arrest?
Netherlands, you have an issue I think. Might want to fill the holes in your walls…
Wtf Netherlands?! I never knew!
Am from macedonia and this ain’t true
If this is data for 2018 then we had 3 escapes on 1353 prison population. That’s ~22 per 10000. But there were no escapes between 2014 and 2017.
Macedonian policeman : You are under arrest !
Prisoner : No.
Macedonian policeman : Understandable, have a nice day.
But scandinavian prisons are basically luxury hotels, why would you want to escape
What is the timeframe, and are these numbers including open prisons, and specifically: does an absentee at roll call constitute an escaped prisoner?
There are many prison types, including home incarceration or housearrest, where leaving to buy smokes and then coming back could be considered prison break. The graphic posted by OP is meaningless without context.
Looks like Macedonia watched a lot of Prison Break
I didn’t know Andorra have a prison.
>escape from shawshank in Chechia
No
>Macedonians
Who needs walls anyway
Since this seems to include „not coming back from outside visits“ etc. It’d be interesting to know how many of them actually permanently escape and how many are (quickly) caught and put back into prison.
I don’t understand France’s low rate.
Should clarify what “escape” means otherwise that map is highly misleading.
Apparently speaking a Germanic language (or Macedonian) increases one’s chances of scaping prison lol
How the heck is Iceland so high? Don’t we have like no prisoners?
In Scotland, people escape *into* prison
it would require time-frame, detail on what constitute “prison escape” and total amount of prisoners in the country.
IIRC in Italy we had about 60k prisoners(as in: people who had to stay in prison) in the latest years, which is a GIGANTIC amount;
I’m pretty sure most of the prison “escapes” in Finland are when someone has gotten an evening leave to visit family or what not and gone out drinking and forgotten to return to the prison.
Macedonia has a lot of structural engineers with brothers locked up behind bars.
Who’s the inmate who escaped from Andorra😳
I love how everyone here keeps saying “Macedonia” instead of “North Macedonia”
I think Belgium is one of the few countries where (attempted) escape from prison is not a crime. You can forget an early release for good behaviour etc of course. And if you steal or damage something, threaten or hurt someone,… during your (attempted) escape that is a crime of course.
The idea is that the judge can take your freedom (imprisonment) but can’t take your right to search for freedom. It’s something vague like that. I read that we are planning on changing that though.
Not quite a classic escape out of the prison in itself, I know of a case here in Luxembourg, where an inmate took his leave during a medical visit to the hospital. Took off out of the examination room, handcuffs on and all, managed to take a bus lol, was picked up by friends and was only found days later because one of his buddies snitched on him I think if I remember right.
I am slightly shocked to see we have had 455, but then again, most things are firmly swept under the rug here and only a few criminal affairs become public knowledge.
I thought you Northmen had amazing luxury prisons that no one ever wanted to leave?
Maybe it’s just bad prison food?
Fun fact: Escaping from prison is not a crime in Germany. They obviously will try to catch you again, and they might add time to your sentence for additional crimes you commit while breaking out (knocking out a guard, stealing a key etc), but the act of escaping itself does not carry a punishment.
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Source: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/sg9k70/prison_escapes_per_10000_inmates_in_europe/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/sg9k70/prison_escapes_per_10000_inmates_in_europe/)
Czechia for the win
does anyone have recapture rates ? that would also be interesting.
Does it really mean prison escape or is not coming back from outside visits included?
El Chapo would be proud of those red countries.
Lmaoo. Most of our escapees were just given the opportunity to escape on a silver plater. “you are convicted of asault and murder? have a weekend out!” “seriously?” “oh yeah, visit your family, party, have a blast. We won’t even monitor you”
“need to go to a hospital, funeral? No problem, we won’t even give a shit. Just pick up your phone if we call, no monitoring”
Does this include house arrest?
Netherlands, you have an issue I think. Might want to fill the holes in your walls…
Wtf Netherlands?! I never knew!
Am from macedonia and this ain’t true
If this is data for 2018 then we had 3 escapes on 1353 prison population. That’s ~22 per 10000. But there were no escapes between 2014 and 2017.
Macedonian policeman : You are under arrest !
Prisoner : No.
Macedonian policeman : Understandable, have a nice day.
But scandinavian prisons are basically luxury hotels, why would you want to escape
What is the timeframe, and are these numbers including open prisons, and specifically: does an absentee at roll call constitute an escaped prisoner?
There are many prison types, including home incarceration or housearrest, where leaving to buy smokes and then coming back could be considered prison break. The graphic posted by OP is meaningless without context.
Looks like Macedonia watched a lot of Prison Break
I didn’t know Andorra have a prison.
>escape from shawshank in Chechia
No
>Macedonians
Who needs walls anyway
Since this seems to include „not coming back from outside visits“ etc. It’d be interesting to know how many of them actually permanently escape and how many are (quickly) caught and put back into prison.
I don’t understand France’s low rate.
Should clarify what “escape” means otherwise that map is highly misleading.
Apparently speaking a Germanic language (or Macedonian) increases one’s chances of scaping prison lol
How the heck is Iceland so high? Don’t we have like no prisoners?
In Scotland, people escape *into* prison
it would require time-frame, detail on what constitute “prison escape” and total amount of prisoners in the country.
IIRC in Italy we had about 60k prisoners(as in: people who had to stay in prison) in the latest years, which is a GIGANTIC amount;
I’m pretty sure most of the prison “escapes” in Finland are when someone has gotten an evening leave to visit family or what not and gone out drinking and forgotten to return to the prison.
Macedonia has a lot of structural engineers with brothers locked up behind bars.
Who’s the inmate who escaped from Andorra😳
I love how everyone here keeps saying “Macedonia” instead of “North Macedonia”
I think Belgium is one of the few countries where (attempted) escape from prison is not a crime. You can forget an early release for good behaviour etc of course. And if you steal or damage something, threaten or hurt someone,… during your (attempted) escape that is a crime of course.
The idea is that the judge can take your freedom (imprisonment) but can’t take your right to search for freedom. It’s something vague like that. I read that we are planning on changing that though.
Not quite a classic escape out of the prison in itself, I know of a case here in Luxembourg, where an inmate took his leave during a medical visit to the hospital. Took off out of the examination room, handcuffs on and all, managed to take a bus lol, was picked up by friends and was only found days later because one of his buddies snitched on him I think if I remember right.
I am slightly shocked to see we have had 455, but then again, most things are firmly swept under the rug here and only a few criminal affairs become public knowledge.
I thought you Northmen had amazing luxury prisons that no one ever wanted to leave?
Maybe it’s just bad prison food?
Fun fact: Escaping from prison is not a crime in Germany. They obviously will try to catch you again, and they might add time to your sentence for additional crimes you commit while breaking out (knocking out a guard, stealing a key etc), but the act of escaping itself does not carry a punishment.