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5. Prisons
5.2.2 Persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions, SENTENCED (Males and Females)
"SENTENCED PERSONS HELD" refers to the total number of persons held in adult and/or juvenile Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions after a first instance decision or a final decision on their case has been made by a competent authority. This includes sentenced persons with a final decision, persons held who are awaiting the outcome of an appeal in respect of verdict or sentence or who are within the statutory limits for appealing and persons held who have been convicted but who have not received a sentence yet. Persons held who have received a custodial sentence for one crime but are still under trial and unsentenced for another crime should be counted as sentenced persons held.

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

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Antigua and Barbuda2022144 
Argentina202367,352 
Bahamas2022982 
Barbados2023329 
Belize2022763 
Bolivia202310,758 
Brazil2022462,754 
Canada202218,678 
Chile202333,476 
Colombia202379,736 
Costa Rica202312,525 
Dominica2023179 
Dominican Republic202310,625 
Ecuador202319,909 
El Salvador201929,574 
Grenada2023150 
Guatemala202314,314 
Guyana20231,226 
Haiti20101,705 
Honduras20229,567 
Jamaica20232,262 
Mexico2023146,293 
Nicaragua20105,355 
Panama202315,134 
Paraguay20235,978 
Peru202359,719 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202299 
Saint Lucia2023181 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2023202 
Suriname2023890 
Trinidad and Tobago20201,396 
United States20221,321,500 
Uruguay202314,400 
Venezuela201216,409 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean20235,404 
03. Central America202160,470 
04. North America20221,477,910 
05. South America2023759,021 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).