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5. Prisons
5.1.2 Adults held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
"ADULTS HELD IN PRISONS" means the total number of adults 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.

[Source: 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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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda2022232 
Argentina2022105,053 
Bahamas20221,312 
Barbados2022689 
Belize20221,183 
Bolivia202224,824 
Brazil2019755,274 
Canada202234,775 
Chile202244,058 
Colombia202297,860 
Costa Rica202214,907 
Dominica2022367 
Dominican Republic202127,198 
Ecuador202231,438 
El Salvador201938,115 
Grenada2022428 
Guatemala202224,164 
Guyana20212,035 
Haiti20139,904 
Honduras202219,458 
Jamaica20223,667 
Mexico2022224,805 
Nicaragua201917,723 
Panama202221,934 
Paraguay202216,443 
Peru202289,877 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2022251 
Saint Lucia2022528 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2022564 
Suriname20221,025 
Trinidad and Tobago20203,616 
United States20221,805,800 
Uruguay202214,497 
Venezuela201248,262 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20123,637,066 
02. Caribbean201246,582 
03. Central America2019163,671 
04. North America20122,593,044 
05. South America2012901,219 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).