| Prison population total | 53,329 |
| Prison population rate (per 100,000) | 90.0 |
| Number of children separated from | |
| Imprisoned father (1.3 parenting rate) | 66,402.7 |
| Imprisoned mother (1.3 parenting rate) | 2,925 |
| Age limit of children living with their parent in penal institutions | Up to 3 years old in prison Up to 6 years old in ICAM (Istituto a Custodia Attenuata per Madri detenute) Up to 10 years old in sheltered family houses |
Prison population total and prison rate per 100,000 are retrieved from Aebi, M. F., Cocco, E., Molnar, L. & Tiago, M. M., (2022). SPACE I – 2021 – Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics: Prison populations. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Table 7.
Estimated number of children separated from an imprisoned parent: extrapolation based on Champsaur, P., et al. (2002), L’Histoire familiale des hommes détenus, Paris : INSEE. The study found a parenting rate of 1.3 among male prisoners in France.
Age limit for children living in prisons: retrieved from Antigone, 2019 (“Donne, non solo numeri. Uno sguardo qualitativo sulla detenzione femminile”, XV rapporto sulle condizioni di detenzione).
In 2016, COPE member Bambinisenzasbarre collected data relating to children of prisoners from 192 of Italian prisons. Some of the data was compared to figures collected in 2013. COPE has collated this data in four infographics displayed below:
