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5. Prisons
5.1.5.% Foreign citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions (percentage)
It refers to the total number of “Foreign Citizens Held” as a PERCENTAGE of the total number of Persons Held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions [(Total Foreign Citizen held *100)/Total Persons held.]
“FOREIGN CITIZENS HELD” means the total number of persons (adults or juveniles) who do not have citizenship of your country (this excludes persons with dual-nationality), and is held in adult or juvenile 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: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]


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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda200753 
Argentina20205 
Bahamas202017 
Barbados20193 
Belize202021 
Bolivia20203 
Brazil20190 
Canada------ 
Chile20206 
Colombia20201 
Costa Rica202015 
Dominica20204 
Dominican Republic20207 
Ecuador20209 
El Salvador20191 
Grenada20206 
Guatemala20203 
Guyana20201 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20191 
Jamaica20200 
Mexico20201 
Nicaragua20191 
Panama20208 
Paraguay20195 
Peru20203 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20205 
Saint Lucia20204 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20202 
Suriname20209 
Trinidad and Tobago20151 
United States20197 
Uruguay20203 
Venezuela20114 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20120 
02. Caribbean20120 
03. Central America20120 
04. North America20120 
05. South America20120 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).