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5. Prisons
5.4.1 Mortality of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions: total number of deaths
Total number of deaths of persons held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions. Total number of deaths corresponds to the sum of Deaths due to external causes + Deaths due to natural causes, according to the definitions provided by the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).

Data are provided by Member States also through the very same UN-CTS.


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Antigua and Barbuda20221 
Argentina2022353 
Bahamas20226 
Barbados20221 
Belize20226 
Bolivia202280 
Brazil2016867 
Canada2021127 
Chile2022140 
Colombia2022311 
Costa Rica202235 
Dominica20220 
Dominican Republic202072 
Ecuador2022310 
El Salvador201874 
Grenada20221 
Guatemala2022141 
Guyana202010 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202247 
Jamaica202219 
Mexico2022710 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama202219 
Paraguay202236 
Peru2017269 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20221 
Saint Lucia20220 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20222 
Suriname20220 
Trinidad and Tobago202012 
United States20195,443 
Uruguay202242 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
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).