Correction centers in Jordan

There are 18 correction and rehabilitation centers / CRCs (ar. مركز اصلاح وتاهيل) in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan which are operated by the Public Security Departments prison service which answers to the Ministry of Interior.

List of jordanian prisons

Qafqafa, al Mwaggar 1, and Swaqa incarcerate only convicts and the rest house detainees and convicts in separate housing areas.

Swaqa correction center is the largest of all these centers with a capacity of 2200 inmates. It provides vocational and cultural rehabilitation programs

Fuhais mental hospital accommodates mentally ill prisoners.

The three main inspection bodies include Human Rights Watch, ICRC and the National Centre for Human Rights (Jordan)

CRC (Latinized name)	Arabic name	Established	Designcapacity	Georeference	in operation?
Suwaqa prison	سجن سواقه		2000		yes
Qafqafa prison	سجن قفقفا
Muwaqqar I			896		yes
Muwaqqar II			240		yes
Al-Karak prison	سجن الكرك
Ma'an prison	سجن معان
Al-Aqaba prison			192
Al/Balqa/Salt prison
Um Lulu est.			900
Salhoub
Zarqa prison	سجب الزرقاء		900		yes
Marka prison	سجب ماركا		900		yes
Irbid prison	سجن إربد
Al-Rusayfah Juvenile Prison
Detention and Interrogation Center of the GID					yes
Al-Jafr prison	سجن الجفر
Juweideh prison / men
Juweideh prison / women
Birain prison	سجن بيرين		650

Human rights Abuses

• The use of Castor Oil pills during the initial examination. The goal is to provoke diarrhea in order to prevent prisoners from smuggling pills, drugs, razor blades and the like which were previously swallowed into the prison.
• Beatings by Darak and prison guards with metal sticks and cables

Notable events

• Riots broke out among the Tanzimat of Juwaida, Swaqa and Qafqafa in March and April 2006