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- ↑ Intitutions
- 1 2 International Centre for Prison Studies: Estonia Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-07-29
- ↑ International Centre for Prison Studies: Europe - Prison Population Rates per 100,000 Retrieved 2011-07-29
- ↑ (from the estonian prisons official webpage).
- ↑ Prison_population 2002-2012 ec.europa.eu
