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6. Criminal Justice System Personnel & Capacity
6.5.1% Occupancy rate (based on official capacity)
"Occupancy rate" describes the total of persons held in prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions as a PERCENTAGE of the prison's system official capacity. [(Prison population * 100) / Official capacity].

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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda2009185 
Argentina2021116 
Bahamas2019105 
Barbados202157 
Belize202151 
Bolivia2012277 
Brazil2015188 
Canada202069 
Chile202197 
Colombia2021120 
Costa Rica2017133 
Dominica2021138 
Dominican Republic2021173 
Ecuador2021117 
El Salvador2019139 
Grenada2021295 
Guatemala2019364 
Guyana2017148 
Haiti2009363 
Honduras2019146 
Jamaica2021107 
Mexico2021102 
Nicaragua2019143 
Panama2021134 
Paraguay202117 
Peru2021212 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2012195 
Saint Lucia202194 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019100 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago2015208 
United States201997 
Uruguay2021114 
Venezuela2011270 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean20190 
03. Central America2019215 
04. North America20190 
05. South America20190 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).