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5. Prisons
5.1.1 Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions on a specified day and should exclude non-criminal prisoners held for administrative purposes, for example, persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or foreign citizens without a legal right to stay.

[Source: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS). Definition is also from the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS), Definitions Section.]



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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda2022233 
Argentina2022105,906 
Bahamas20221,319 
Barbados2023781 
Belize20221,035 
Bolivia202328,838 
Brazil2014607,731 
Canada202235,207 
Chile202353,000 
Colombia2023105,205 
Costa Rica202315,963 
Dominica2023406 
Dominican Republic202325,948 
Ecuador202331,177 
El Salvador201939,961 
Grenada2023378 
Guatemala202324,205 
Guyana20232,283 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201516,158 
Jamaica20233,720 
Mexico2023232,277 
Nicaragua201917,906 
Panama202323,931 
Paraguay202317,836 
Peru202396,577 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2022251 
Saint Lucia2023585 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2023490 
Suriname20231,086 
Trinidad and Tobago202116,535 
United States20221,808,100 
Uruguay202315,744 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean20239,734 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America20222,069,384 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).