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5. Prisons
5.1.4 National citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
Total number of national citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions on a specified day, and should exclude non-criminal prisoners held for administrative purposes, including persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or foreign citizens without a legal right to stay.
NATIONAL CITIZEN is a person who has citizenship of your country; this includes persons with dual-nationality.
CITIZENSHIP means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation.

[Sources: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS). Definitions of NATIONAL CITIZEN and CITIZENSHIP are provided by the UN-CTS and the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), p.100 footnote 167, respectively.]


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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina2022100,754 
Bahamas20221,196 
Barbados2022714 
Belize20221,052 
Bolivia202224,017 
Brazil2019673,730 
Canada------ 
Chile202239,603 
Colombia202298,814 
Costa Rica202212,990 
Dominica2022358 
Dominican Republic202125,341 
Ecuador202228,659 
El Salvador201939,440 
Grenada2022414 
Guatemala202223,544 
Guyana20212,009 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202219,308 
Jamaica20223,828 
Mexico2022223,089 
Nicaragua201917,688 
Panama202220,848 
Paraguay202216,087 
Peru202286,327 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2022231 
Saint Lucia2022521 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2022549 
Suriname2022973 
Trinidad and Tobago20203,562 
United States20191,936,100 
Uruguay202214,136 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America2019158,276 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).