Prison capacity and occupancy by penitentiary¶

Capacity and occupancy of Romanian penitentiaries: inmates held (total and minors), capacity at the 4 m2/person standard, occupancy rate, legal capacity and installed beds, per facility (as of November 2016). Source: Administrația Națională a Penitenciarelor via data.gov.ro.


Endpoint	`GET /v1/justice/prison_capacity`
Export	`GET /v1/justice/prison_capacity/export?format=csv\\|ndjson`
Dataset id	`prison_capacity`
Domain	justice
Rows	45
Source	data.gov.ro CKAN package `capacitatea-de-cazare-a-unitatilor-penitenciare-si-efectivele-acestora`

Columns¶

All columns are filterable, sortable, and selectable — see Querying & filtering.

Column	Type	Notes
`row_number`	integer	required
`facility`	string	required
`inmate_count`	integer
`minor_count`	integer
`capacity_4sqm`	integer
`occupancy_rate`	decimal
`legal_capacity`	integer
`bed_count`	integer
`source_year`	bigint	constant for this source file

Example request¶

curlPythonJavaScript

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" "https://api.canovix.ro/v1/justice/prison_capacity?limit=2"

page = client.get("/v1/justice/prison_capacity", params={"limit": 2}).json()

const page = await (await fetch(`${BASE}/v1/justice/prison_capacity?limit=2`, { headers })).json();

Response:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "row_number": 1,
      "facility": "Aiud",
      "inmate_count": 813,
      "minor_count": 4,
      "capacity_4sqm": 717,
      "occupancy_rate": 113.389121339,
      "legal_capacity": 765,
      "bed_count": 1115
    },
    {
      "row_number": 2,
      "facility": "Arad - Centru",
      "inmate_count": 911,
      "minor_count": 0,
      "capacity_4sqm": 1124,
      "occupancy_rate": 81.049822064,
      "legal_capacity": 1124,
      "bed_count": 1163
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "total": 45,
    "count": 2,
    "limit": 2,
    "offset": 0,
    "has_next": true,
    "next_offset": 2
  },
  "meta": {
    "api_version": "v1",
    "dataset": "prison_capacity",
    "domain": "justice",
    "source_year": 2016,
    "source": "https://data.gov.ro/dataset/capacitatea-de-cazare-a-unitatilor-penitenciare-si-efectivele-acestora",
    "last_updated": "2026-07-21T15:58:36Z",
    "generated_at": "2026-07-31T08:48:45Z"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "/v1/justice/prison_capacity?limit=2",
    "next": "/v1/justice/prison_capacity?limit=2&offset=2",
    "prev": null,
    "first": "/v1/justice/prison_capacity?limit=2&offset=0",
    "last": "/v1/justice/prison_capacity?limit=2&offset=44",
    "documentation": "/documentation/datasets/prison_capacity/"
  }
}

Provenance¶

Latest ingestion (version 1): 45 rows imported, 67 quarantined, from capacitatea-de-cazare-a-unitatilor-si-efectivele-acestora-la-22.11.2016.xlsx (SHA-256 ede581727622…) on 2026-07-21.

Full provenance — checksums, pipeline version, timings — is live at /v1/datasets/{id}.