Dataset Overview

This dataset provides year and jail wise data on absolute count of jails in India.

Organisation

National Crime Record Bureau

Sectors

Home Affairs and Enforcement

Update Frequency

Yearly

Granularity

Year, Jail Type

Time Saved

6 hours

Number of Rows

189

Number of Columns

Sources

Prison Statistics India, NCRB

Time Period

2001, 2002, 2004 to 2023

Units

value in absolute numbers

Last Updated

February, 2026

Data Preview

year	state	jail_type	count	unit
2023	All India	Open Jails	101	count in absolute number
2023	All India	Borstal Homes	10	count in absolute number
2023	All India	Others	2	count in absolute number
2023	All India	Special Jails	47	count in absolute number
2023	All India	Total	1332	count in absolute number
2023	All India	District Jails	436	count in absolute number
2023	All India	Central Jails	152	count in absolute number
2023	All India	Women Jails	35	count in absolute number
2023	All India	Sub Jails	549	count in absolute number
2022	All India	Sub Jails	574	count in absolute number

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
year	21	21	Int64	189
state	1	1	String	189
jail_type	9	9	String	189
count	129	129	Float64	189
unit	1	1	String	189
note	1	1	String	0

Citation

National Crime Record Bureau. NCRB - Prison Statistics: Year and Jail wise Number of Jails in India [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/22982

NCRB - Prison Statistics: Year and Jail wise Number of Jails in India