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5. Prisons
5.4.2.3 Mortality of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions: Deaths by accident or other causes
Total number of deaths by accidents or “other causes”, of persons held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions.
It INCLUDES deaths caused by unintentional injury in an accidental manner, as well as death by “other causes” such as: by environmental events or by circumstances suggestive of environmental causes. Deaths due to acute alcohol or drugs intoxication should be included.
It EXCLUDES deaths due to intentional injury, such as intentional homicide or suicide. Persons sentenced to death by a competent authority and who were executed on the basis of a legal ruling while in prison should be excluded

[Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]


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Antigua and Barbuda20220 
Argentina2018198 
Bahamas20220 
Barbados20220 
Belize20220 
Bolivia20220 
Brazil2016127 
Canada------ 
Chile202210 
Colombia202264 
Costa Rica20220 
Dominica20220 
Dominican Republic20204 
Ecuador20221 
El Salvador20182 
Grenada20220 
Guatemala------ 
Guyana------ 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20226 
Jamaica20222 
Mexico202215 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama20220 
Paraguay202235 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20220 
Saint Lucia20220 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20220 
Suriname20220 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States2019581 
Uruguay20223 
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).