Data sources & licenses

United States facilities and agencies

• Prison Boundaries and Local Law Enforcement Locations, Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD), U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved from the HIFLD Archive by SeerAI, Inc. (2025), source.coop/seerai/hifld, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Names were reformatted from upper case, closed facilities were removed, and records were grouped by state and county.

Worldwide: prisons and police

• OpenStreetMap: prison and police locations, names, addresses and contact details © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Retrieved through the QLever OpenStreetMap endpoint. Records were filtered (closed and historic sites removed), merged and grouped by region and district.
• Wikidata: facility names, types, operators and identifiers, and for facilities with their own Wikidata item the official website, telephone number and address, released under CC0.
• Overture Maps Foundation, Places theme (release 2026-09-23): street addresses, postcodes, landline telephone numbers and official websites for police stations and prisons whose official or OpenStreetMap record had none, matched by position and name; mobile numbers and non-official websites are not used. © Overture Maps Foundation, available under the Community Data License Agreement – Permissive 2.0 and the Apache License 2.0 (records from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other contributors).
• geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab): administrative boundaries used to assign each facility to its region and district. Licenses vary by country (mostly CC BY 4.0, ODbL or national open licenses); see geoboundaries.org.

Official national registers

• United Kingdom: prison pages of GOV.UK (HM Prison and Probation Service). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with postcodes.io (Office for National Statistics data, OGL).
• Turkey: institution list and contact pages of the General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses (Ceza ve Tevkifevleri Genel Müdürlüğü), Ministry of Justice.
• France: Annuaire de l'administration, service-public.fr (DILA), under the Licence Ouverte 2.0.
• Germany: Orts- und Gerichtsverzeichnis (Justizadressen) of the German state justice administrations.
• Netherlands: location pages of the Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen; coordinates from the PDOK Locatieserver (Dutch government, CC0).
• Austria: list of Justizanstalten, Federal Ministry of Justice.
• Luxembourg: pages of the three prisons of the Prison Administration (Administration pénitentiaire) on ap.public.lu.
• Switzerland: institutions of deprivation of liberty listed by the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Prison and Probation (SKJV / CSCSP), with addresses and telephone numbers from the cantonal pages; cantons and districts from swissBOUNDARIES3D, © swisstopo (open government data, free use with attribution).
• Poland: unit pages of the Służba Więzienna (Polish Prison Service), published under a Creative Commons licence.
• Norway: unit pages of Kriminalomsorgen (Norwegian Correctional Service); addresses located with Geonorge (Kartverket, CC BY 4.0).
• Denmark: institution pages of Kriminalforsorgen (Danish Prison and Probation Service).
• Czech Republic: unit contacts of the Vězeňská služba ČR; addresses located with RÚIAN (ČÚZK, CC BY 4.0).
• Portugal: establishment list of the Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais (DGRSP).
• Slovakia: contact list of the Zbor väzenskej a justičnej stráže.
• Finland: prison contact pages of Rikosseuraamuslaitos (Criminal Sanctions Agency).
• Belgium: prison, detention house and transition house addresses of the FPS Justice (Directorate-General of Penitentiary Institutions).
• Ireland: prison pages of the Irish Prison Service.
• Croatia: prison, penitentiary and correctional institution pages of the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation.
• Hungary: institution map of the Hungarian Prison Service Headquarters (Büntetés-végrehajtás Országos Parancsnoksága), with official coordinates.
• Iceland: the four prisons with address, telephone and type from the Prison and Probation Administration (fangelsi.is; the closed Akureyri prison and Hegningarhúsið are not listed); police stations in the nine police districts with address and station or district telephone, plus the National Commissioner of Police, from the police pages on Ísland.is; municipalities as of 1 January 2026 from Statistics Iceland (px.hagstofa.is), with older geoBoundaries outlines merged according to the 2018–2024 municipal mergers. Station positions come from the matching OpenStreetMap building or, failing that, from Nominatim at the official address.
• Slovenia: institution pages of the Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia (Uprava za izvrševanje kazenskih sankcij) on gov.si.
• Finland: prisons with address, switchboard number and type (closed / open) from the Criminal Sanctions Agency (rikosseuraamus.fi) contact pages; regions (maakunta) and sub-regions (seutukunta) with official names in Finnish, Swedish and English and boundaries from Statistics Finland (classification service data.stat.fi and geo.stat.fi, CC BY 4.0). The police website could not be reached; police stations come from OpenStreetMap.
• Moldova: police directorates, inspectorates and police sectors with address and landline numbers from the General Police Inspectorate list of territorial subdivisions (politia.md, CC BY-SA 4.0); addresses were located with Nominatim only when the result lies in the stated district and near the stated locality, otherwise at the locality centre (marked as approximate). Names of officers and mobile numbers were not taken. The National Administration of Penitentiaries website could not be reached; prisons come from OpenStreetMap, without closed facilities.
• Serbia: police directorates, police stations and separately housed police outposts with their first landline number from the Ministry of Interior list of regional police directorates, police stations and outposts (mup.gov.rs, list of 15 September 2026). The list gives no street addresses, so units take the position of the matching OpenStreetMap police object where one exists, and otherwise the centre of their town or village (marked as approximate). District and municipality names follow the official Serbian names via Wikidata (CC0). Traffic, border and specialised units not in the list come from OpenStreetMap; the prison administration website could not be reached, so prisons also come from OpenStreetMap.
• North Macedonia: the thirteen penal-correctional and educational-correctional institutions with address and landline from the Administration for Execution of Sanctions (uis.gov.mk); police stations and police departments with their landline for the internal-affairs sectors whose lists are published (Ohrid, Veles, Štip, Bitola, Kumanovo) from the Ministry of Interior (mvr.gov.mk); other police units and border crossings from OpenStreetMap. Municipality names in Macedonian and official Latin spelling from Wikidata (CC0), with the 2013 merger of Drugovo, Oslomej, Vraneštica and Zajas into Kičevo applied to the geoBoundaries outlines. Names of officials and mobile numbers were not taken.
• Armenia: the 59 divisions of the Community Police Main Department with address and duty-unit telephone from the structure page of the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (police.am); division chiefs' names and personal lines were not taken. Positions come from the matching OpenStreetMap building, Nominatim at the official address or the town centre (marked as approximate). Road police and vehicle registration units come from OpenStreetMap. The Ministry of Justice and penitentiary service websites could not be reached; prisons come from OpenStreetMap.
• Andorra: the central police office, the parish offices and the Riu Runer border office with address and telephone from the Andorra Police (policia.ad); the juxtaposed control office at Porta, on French territory, is not listed. Parish names in their official Catalan spelling. The prison and the parish councils' traffic services come from OpenStreetMap.
• Japan: prefectural police headquarters, police stations, kōban and chūzaisho with official name, reading, telephone, postcode, address and local-government code from the National Police Agency list "全国警察施設名称位置等" (situation on 1 April 2024, e-Gov data portal); a kōban marked as demolished in that list is not shown. Positions come from the matching OpenStreetMap building or the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan address search (msearch.gsi.go.jp); 44 village lot addresses resolve only to the municipality and are marked as approximate. Prefecture and municipality names and readings from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications local-government code list (1 January 2024); English municipality names from Wikidata (CC0), checked against the official readings. Specialised units (riot police, traffic and expressway units, railway police) are not in the official list and are not shown. The Ministry of Justice website could not be reached from our network; prisons come from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
• Taiwan: police departments, precincts, police stations and checkpoints with name, English name, address, telephone and coordinates (TWD97) from the National Police Agency open data "各警察(分)局分駐(派出)所地址電話經緯度資料" (2 October 2026); coordinates entered in the wrong zone or format in that file were corrected and checked against the address district. National police bureaus, harbour police, special police corps and the Coast Guard Administration and its branches, and the 47 correctional institutions and four juvenile correctional schools with address and telephone, from the government agency code list of the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration (data.gov.tw 7307); the list of independent correctional institutions and their websites from the Ministry of Justice (moj.gov.tw); units attached at the same address (detention centres, juvenile detention houses) are shown on their host institution's page. Immigration detention centres from the National Immigration Agency (immigration.gov.tw). District names in Chinese and English from Chunghwa Post (data.gov.tw 5949, 25489). The Agency of Corrections website could not be reached from our network.
• South Korea: police stations (2023-06-27) and police precincts and police boxes (2025-12-31) with address from the Korean National Police Agency open data on data.go.kr; positions from Nominatim at the official address (or the road or district centre, marked as approximate). Provincial police agencies under their names in the KNPA organisation decree in force from 1 July 2026 (Gwangju and Jeonnam police agencies), positioned at the matching OpenStreetMap building; the police website could not be reached from our network. Prisons, detention centres and branches with address, postcode, inmate mail box, telephone and map position from the Korea Correctional Service institution pages (moj.go.kr), the private Somang prison from its own website, juvenile reformatories and the juvenile classification centres from the Crime Prevention Policy Bureau (cppb.go.kr) and the Hwaseong immigration detention centre from the Korea Immigration Service. Provinces and districts as in force on 1 July 2026 (Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City; Incheon's Jemulpo, Yeongjong, Seohae and Geomdan districts) from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport legal-dong code file on data.go.kr; English district names from Wikidata (CC0) and the official Revised Romanization; English addresses follow the official road-name address format.
• Lebanon: police stations and posts, emergency and traffic detachments and the Directorate General of the Internal Security Forces with Arabic and English names, telephone numbers and map positions from the ISF "Contact us" page (isf.gov.lb); the Hawla police post, listed without a map position, is placed at the village centre (approximate). The ISF Academy and the Helou barracks are not included. Governorates and districts (including Akkar, Baalbek-Hermel and Keserwan-Jbeil governorates) with Arabic and English names from Wikidata (CC0), boundaries from geoBoundaries. Prisons from OpenStreetMap; no official list with locations is published.
• Latvia: State Police precincts and regional boards and municipal police units with address and location from the open data of the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior (data.gov.lv, "VP iecirkņu adreses" and "Pašvaldības policijas vienību adreses"); prisons and the Latvian Prison Hospital with telephone numbers from the Latvian Prison Administration (ievp.gov.lv, contacts); prisons not on that list (Brasa, Jelgava, Cēsis juvenile institution) are closed and not listed.
• Estonia: police stations (politseijaoskonnad), police detention houses and short-term holding facilities with address, location and holding-facility telephone numbers from the Police and Border Guard Board's official list of locations (politsei.ee); Tallinn, Tartu and Viru prisons with address, switchboard number and capacity from the Estonian Prison Service (vanglateenistus.ee); counties and municipalities (79, with EHAK codes and boundaries) from the Estonian Land and Spatial Development Board (Maa- ja Ruumiamet) administrative-division open data.
• Sweden: police stations with address, location and official page from the Swedish Police Authority's open API (polisen.se/api/policestations); prisons and remand prisons from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata (the Swedish Prison and Probation Service website could not be reached for verification).
• Brazil: prison units with address, telephone and capacity from the SENAPPEN national penitentiary survey SISDEPEN (19th cycle, second half of 2025, open data on gov.br/senappen); state and municipality names and boundaries from the IBGE data services API. Units without coordinates were located with Nominatim from the official address or, failing that, the postcode (CEP); every result must fall inside the stated municipality, and postcode-based positions are approximate. Units that could not be placed this way are not listed.
• Peru: penitentiary establishments with regional office, address and location from the "Establecimientos penitenciarios" layer of the Instituto Nacional Penitenciario (INPE) open data portal (portal-inpe.opendata.arcgis.com); province names from Wikidata (CC0).
• Mexico: state prisons and specialised centres for adolescents, with location, telephone and installed capacity at the end of 2024, from the INEGI Censo Nacional de Sistemas Penitenciarios Estatales 2025 open data (INEGI terms of free use); federal prisons (CEFERESO) and their capacity from the Prevención y Reinserción Social monthly penitentiary statistics (June 2026) on datos.gob.mx (CC BY 4.0); state and municipality names from the INEGI Marco Geoestadístico catalogue.
• Romania: prisons, prison hospitals, detention and educational centres and external sections of the Administrația Națională a Penitenciarelor (ANP), with official names and capacity (4 m² per person, 27 December 2019), from the Ministry of Justice "Rapoarte statistice ANP 2019" on data.gov.ro (OGL-ROU-1.0); county and municipality names from the SIRUTA register of the Institutul Național de Statistică on data.gov.ro (CC BY 4.0).
• Colombia: national prison establishments (ERON) of the Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario (INPEC), with address and e-mail, from inpec.gov.co; municipality spelling from DANE DIVIPOLA (datos.gov.co).
• Argentina: federal establishments of the Servicio Penitenciario Federal published on argentina.gob.ar (CC BY 4.0); provinces and departments from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Georef API and WFS).
• Australia (New South Wales): correctional centre pages of Corrective Services NSW.
• South Africa: the "Find a Centre" directory of the Department of Correctional Services (centre names, telephone numbers and street addresses; names of staff are not used).
• Where an official register gives an address without coordinates, the location was found with OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL).

Live booking rosters

Booking information is compiled from rosters that county sheriffs and jails publish for the public. Each record page links to the official agency source.

Corrections

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