Prison cells in Cyprus are on average the most overcrowded in the entire European Union , according to data released by the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat on Thursday.
Cyprus’ prison has an occupancy rate of 227.6 per cent – a figure which dwarfs the second-highest rate of 134.2 per cent, recorded in Slovenia, and France’s rate of 129.3, which sees it rank third.
A rate of over 100 per cent
