OCCRP journalists conducted dozens of interviews with convicted criminals throughout Eastern Europe. The videos are an extension of the Jail Crunch visualization and provide a personal window into how crime works in the region. Every few weeks, OCCRP will release a new inmate interview shedding light on how common crimes work across Eastern Europe.

About the Project

OCCRP reporters filed freedom of information requests to prison authorities across Eastern Europe. The interactive visualization is a compilation of the data received from each prison authority, organized to demonstrate similarities and differences between prison demographics and crime categories across the region. The visualization comprises data received at the end of 2013, and will be updated periodically as new jail data is obtained.

OCCRP consolidated a portion of the criminal conviction data into six major crime categories. In some cases, jail authorities provided incomplete or unclassifiable data, which OCCRP reporters organized as best as they could. The raw data provided by each prison authority can be downloaded as a PDF below the individual country statistics.

Reporting and Research

Edik Baghdasaryan Leonard Bakillari Andras Becker David Bloss Aleksandar Bozhinovski Alexenia Dimitrova Stevan Dojcinovic Mantas Dubauskas Krisitina Fidhi Arta Giga

Tsira Gvasalia Zaklina Hadzi-Zafirova Pavla Holcova Bojana Jovanovic Den Kazan Ildi Kovacs Oksana Lyachynska Marine Madatysan Jody McPhillips Zaruhi Mejlumyan

Dejan Milovac Marton Sarkadi Nagy Xhelal Nezir Babett Oroszi Mihai Pogan Renata Radić-Dragić Paul Radu Alina Radu Laura Ranca Durna Safarova

Mahir Sahinovic Matt Sarnecki Aranka Szavuly Nate Tabak Stanamir Vaflenov Jeta Xharra Assen Yordanoff

Design & Data Visualization