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  • Dedicated immigration detention facilities: 5 (2011)
  • Airport transit zones used for migration-related detention: 2 (2011)
  • Prisons used for migration-related detention: 17 (2011)
  • Police stations used for migration-related detention: 3 (2011)
  • Semi-secure asylum reception centres: 5 (2011)
  • Total detention capacity for migrants awaiting deportation: 476 (2011)
  • Undocumented population: 100,000—200,000 (2009)
  • Asylum seekers: 12,916 (end 2010)
  • Max. length of administrative immigration detention: 18 months

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Last updated: October 2011

Switzerland Detention Profile

Map of "In Use" Detention Sites

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  1. Aarau District Prison (Bezirksgefängnis Aarau-Amtshaus)
  2. Altstatten Regional Prison (Regionalgefängnis Altstätten)
  3. Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cantonal Prison (Kantonales Gefängnis Appenzell Ausserrhoden)
  4. Appenzell Innerrhoden Cantonal Police Prison (Kantonalen Polizeigefängnis)
  5. Basel City Deportation Prison (Aussaffungsgefängnis Basel-Stadt, Aussaffungsgefängnis Bälergut)
  6. Basel City Remand Centre (Untersuchungsgefängnis Basel-Stadt)
  7. Bazenheid Deportation Prison (Ausschaffungsgefängnis Bazenheid)
  8. Bern Regional Prison (Regionalgefängnis Bern)
  9. Biberbrugg Security Base Cantonal Prison (Kantonsgefängnis Sicherheitsstützpunkt Biberbrugg)
  10. Egolzwil Deportation Prison (Ausschaffungsgefängnis Wauwilermoos)
  11. Etablissements de détention de La Promenade
  12. Frambois Certified Establishment for Administrative Detention (Etablissement concordataire de détention administrtif de Frambois)
  13. Fribourg Central Prison (Prison centrale de Fribourg)
  14. Geneva Airport Transit Zone detention facility
  15. Glarus Cantonal Prison (Kantonales Gefängnis Glarus)
  16. Justizvollzugsanstalt Realta Prison
  17. Reception and Registration Centre Altstätten (St. Gallen)
  18. Reception and Registration Centre Basel
  19. Reception and Registration Centre Chiasso
  20. Reception and Registration Centre Kreuzlingen
  21. Reception and Registration Centre Vallorbe
  22. Riant Parc, Geneva
  23. Sarnen Police Detention Facility
  24. Schaffhausen Cantonal Prison (Kantonales Gefängnis Schaffhausen)
  25. Solothurn Remand Centre (Untersuchungsgefängnis Solothurn)
  26. Stans Remand and Criminal Prison (Untersuchungs -und Strafgefängnis Stans)
  27. Thurgau Cantonal Prison (Kantonalgefängnis Thurgau)
  28. Widnau Deportation Prison (Ausschaffungsgefängnis Widnau)
  29. Witzwil Penitentiary (Anstalten Witzwil)
  30. Zug Cantonal Prison (Kantonale Strafanstalt Zug)
  31. Zurich Airport Prison (Flughafengefängnis Abt. Ausschaffungshaft)
  32. Zurich Airport Transit Zone detention facility

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