Finland: share of time served in prison by gender 2022

As of 2022, nearly one third of sentenced prisoners in Finland served one to two years in prison. That year, 27 percent of all sentenced prisoners, and 33 percent of sentenced female prisoners served for one year up to less than two years in prison. In general, female prisoners had shorter sentence terms than their male counterparts.

Distribution of length of time served in prison by sentenced prisoners in Finland in 2022, by gender

Characteristic	Total	Women
Less than 3 months	8%	9%
3 up to less than 6 months	10%	11%
6 up to less than 12 months	17%	18%
1 year up to less than 2 years	30%	33%
2 years up to less than 4 years	19%	14%
4 years up to less than 8 years	8%	8%
8 years or more	9%	8%

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

Finland

Survey time period

1. May 2022

Number of respondents

2,294 prisoners*

Supplementary notes

*The source adds the following information: "The table excludes prisoners whose sentence term had not yet been calculated or who were at large."
N female = 169
N total = 2,294

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