Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics of 2195 detainees in a remand prison in Geneva, Switzerland, 2007

Variable	Detainees with at least one medical consultation N = 1510	Detainees without medical consultation N = 685	All detainees N = 2195
Age (years (SD, range))	30.1 (9.8, 18-82)	28.0 (8.8, 18-71)*	29.5 (9.5, 18-82)*
Sex male (n)	95% (1434)	95% (653)	95% (2087)
Length of stay in prison (days (SD, range))	98 (179, 1-2635)**	37 (89, 1-1010)***	80 (160, 1-2635)****
Origin (continent and 5 most frequent countries):
Western Europe§§	27.4% (413)	32.7% (208)	28.9% (621)
France	8.9% (135)	9.4% (60)	9.1% (195)
Switzerland	7.7% (116)	8.6% (61)	8.2% (177)
Italy	2.3% (35)	2.4% (15)	2.3% (50)
Portugal	2.1% (31)	2.7% (17)	2.2% (48)
Spain	2.1% (31)	1.1% (7)	1.8% (38)
Eastern Europe	14.6% (221)	22.0% (140)	16.8% (361)
Albania	5.5% (83)	13.8% (88)	8.0% (171)
Romania	2.0% (30)	4.6% (29)	2.7% (59)
Russia	2.7% (40)	0.6% (4)	2.1% (44)
Kosovo	1.7% (25)	0.9% (6)	1.4% (31)
ex-Yugoslavia§	1.6% (22)	1.4% (9)	1.4% (31)
North Africa and Middle East	30.6% (461)	20.3% (129)	27.5% (590)
Algeria	15.8% (239)	8.6% (55)	13.7% (294)
Palestine	5.8% (88)	3.1% (20)	5.0% (108)
Iraq	3.6% (55)	2.2% (14)	3.2% (69)
Morocco	3.6% (54)	1.7% (11)	3.0% (65)
Tunisia	1.7% (26)	2.5% (16)	2.0% (42)
Sub-Saharan Africa	20.9% (315)	18.2% (116)	20.1% (432)
Guinea	5.2% (78)	5.3% (34)	5.2% (112)
Sierra Leone	1.9% (29)	1.6% (10)	1.8% (39)
Ivory Coast	1.5% (23)	1.6% (10)	1.5% (33)
Congo	1.1% (16)	1.4% (9)	1.2% (25)
Mali	1.0% (15)	1.3% (8)	1.1% (23)
Asia	3.8% (57)	2.2% (14)	3.3% (71)
Georgia	2.7% (41)	1.1% (7)	2.2% (48)
Vietnam	0.2% (3)	0.5% (1)	0.2% (4)
Philippines	0.2% (3)	-	0.1% (3)
Azerbaijan	0.1% (2)	-	0.1% (2)
Uzbekistan	0.1% (2)	-	0.1% (2)
America	2.8% (42)	4.4% (28)	3.3% (70)
Chile	0.7% (11)	0.6% (4)	0.7% (15)
Brazil	0.7% (10)	0.8% (5)	0.7% (15)
Peru	0.3% (4)	0.6% (4)	0.4% (8)
Colombia	0.1% (2)	0.9% (6)	0.4% (8)
Jamaica	0.3% (4)	0.2% (1)	0.2% (5)