In this section you can explore the 8 visualizations, divided in four main topics, we have produced for the JAIL |OD| BREAK project, based on the data collected. You are free to browse the different representations through the buttons that suggest the topic. The charts are interactive, so feel free to filter them to your liking through the selectors.
In this first section, somewhat introductory, it is possible to interface with three different visualizations: a choremap, a pie chart and a bar chart, which aim to offer a general perspective on the prison issue.
This first interactive map allows the observation on how the prison population in Europe is composed. The data comes from two organizations, Eurostat and UNECE, UNODC. The dataset collects information on gender, age, origin and legal status of European inmates and aims to provide a first overall view of the phenomenon analyzed. Through the selector it is possible to select each of the aforementioned categories.
The guideline followed by this project is to go from a more general perspective to an increasingly specific one. This is why, the following pie chart aspires to provide a more detailed visualization of the issues addressed in the first view. it is in fact possible to select a European country and a specific year, in the time span 2003 - 2017 and observe the composition of the prison population per country as a percentage. Also in this case the data comes from Eurostat.
The following multi-line chart allows users to observe the prison population growth over time (2010 - 2018). It is possible to select one or more countries to make comparisons between European states situations. In this case the data comes from UNECE.
The bar graph below aims to show specifically the presence in European prisons of prisoners who have had a sentence and those who are non-sentenced. The time coverage is from 2003 to 2017. In this case the data comes from UNODC and UNECE.
Wanting to go even further in the research, the focus moved on a particularly current aspect in Europe, namely overpopulation in prisons. The data in this case comes from Eurostat. The following visualization takes into account and compares two variables, the capacity of the prisons and the actual number of prisoners per country from 2008 to 2018.
The following two views represent another key point of the research. The data comes from two organizations, WHO and UNODC. As WHO rightly points out, the moment a person crosses the threshold of a prison he is deprived of his freedom, but he should not be deprived of his right to health. The following visualizations show the mortality rate in European countries over the years, crossing this value with the presence or absence of, in the first case, medical document inspections; in the second, an assessment of prison health services.
This latest analysis was an interesting experiment. Data relating to the number of suicides in European prisons were taken into consideration and compared with the number of staff (mainly in the health, psychological and rehabilitation fields) available. Both datasets are provided by UNODC. This is a "case study" because the lack of data did not allow an analysis for all the years but only a focus on the year 2016. However, it seemed interesting to understand how these two variables can be somehow interdependent.