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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 
Argentina202261,291 
Bahamas2022982 
Barbados2022374 
Belize2022763 
Bolivia20228,394 
Brazil2017466,816 
Canada202218,678 
Chile202228,735 
Colombia202275,516 
Costa Rica202211,948 
Dominica2022162 
Dominican Republic202111,428 
Ecuador202219,033 
El Salvador201929,574 
Grenada2022170 
Guatemala202215,813 
Guyana20211,132 
Haiti20101,705 
Honduras20229,567 
Jamaica20222,824 
Mexico2022134,815 
Nicaragua20105,355 
Panama202214,191 
Paraguay20214,456 
Peru202255,806 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202299 
Saint Lucia2022194 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2022213 
Suriname2022657 
Trinidad and Tobago20201,396 
United States20221,321,500 
Uruguay202213,245 
Venezuela201216,409 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean20206,982 
03. Central America202160,470 
04. North America20211,450,279 
05. South America------ 
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