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5. Prisons
5.3.1 Number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions, UNSENTENCED, for MORE than 12 months
5.3.1 Number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions, UNSENTENCED, for MORE than 12 months

"PERSONS HELD UNSENTENCED" refers to persons held in adult and/or juvenile Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions who are untried, pre-trial or awaiting a first instance decision on their case from a competent authority regarding their conviction or acquittal.
INCLUSIONS: Persons held before and during the trial should be included.
EXCLUSIONS: Sentenced persons held awaiting the outcome of an appeal in respect of verdict or sentence or who are within the statutory limits for appealing their sentence should be excluded.

[Source: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]




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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina202024,842 
Bahamas------ 
Barbados2016306 
Belize2020179 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil2019321,211 
Canada2019658 
Chile20202,446 
Colombia202018,928 
Costa Rica20201,401 
Dominica202084 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20193,073 
Grenada------ 
Guatemala20208,457 
Guyana2020469 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202035,701 
Nicaragua2019207 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru202020,087 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia2020209 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines202074 
Suriname2020144 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
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01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
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