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5. Prisons
5.5.1 Total number of persons entering prisons
All persons entering Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions during the course of the year. This includes persons entering pre-sentence detention and persons entering prisons after a sentence was pronounced by a competent authority, as well as entries that occurred after the revocation, suspension or annulment of a conditional release or probation and entries that occurred due to transfers from a foreign country. Entry following a period of authorised absence or temporary prison leave should be excluded.

[Source: Definitions are 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 Barbuda------ 
Argentina202354,444 
Bahamas20232,876 
Barbados2017919 
Belize20211,442 
Bolivia202328,838 
Brazil2022476,536 
Canada20221,238 
Chile202359,171 
Colombia202324,868 
Costa Rica20236,930 
Dominica2023406 
Dominican Republic20236,652 
Ecuador201576,789 
El Salvador201938,115 
Grenada2023406 
Guatemala202314,314 
Guyana20232,283 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201712,640 
Jamaica20171,197 
Mexico2023147,802 
Nicaragua20199,462 
Panama20231,489 
Paraguay201915,597 
Peru202321,566 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2023258 
Saint Lucia2023305 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2023489 
Suriname2023980 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States20217,321,000 
Uruguay202310,850 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America20209,157,663 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).