List of prisons

This article provides a list of prisons by country.

Best known prisons (mostly from 19th century or older, mainly still in function except the Katajanokka Prison and Kakola): For a longer list of prisons in Germany see Liste der Justizvollzugsanstalten in Deutschland (in German) There are 45 Prisons in Ghana which are managed by the Ghana Prisons Service.

In all there are 14,324 prisoners of which 14,125 are males and 199 are females.

[3] Many of the fortifications, such as Fort Saint Elmo and Fort Ricasoli, were also used as prisons at some point.

There are 21 prisons and 10 rural lockups in Papua New Guinea:[5] Reference[7] Thailand has four remand prisons:[11] Yemen