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5. Prisons
5.2.1.% Persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions, UNSENTENCED (Males and Females) (percentage)
Total number of "Persons Held Unsentenced" as a PERCENTAGE of the total number or persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions [Persons Held Unsentenced (%) = TNPU*100 /TNPH, where TNPU= total number of persons held unsentenced, and TNPH= total number or persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions.] "PERSONS HELD UNSENTENCED" refers to persons held in adult and/or juvenile Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions who are untried, pre-trial or awaiting a first instance decision on their case from a competent authority regarding their conviction or acquittal. INCLUSIONS: Persons held before and during the trial should be included. EXCLUSIONS: Sentenced persons held awaiting the outcome of an appeal in respect of verdict or sentence or who are within the statutory limits for appealing their sentence should be excluded. [Source: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda202238 
Argentina202339 
Bahamas202226 
Barbados202367 
Belize202237 
Bolivia202363 
Brazil202228 
Canada202248 
Chile202338 
Colombia202325 
Costa Rica202322 
Dominica202356 
Dominican Republic202358 
Ecuador202337 
El Salvador201927 
Grenada202360 
Guatemala202338 
Guyana202352 
Haiti201373 
Honduras202251 
Jamaica202341 
Mexico202337 
Nicaragua201921 
Panama202335 
Paraguay202367 
Peru202337 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202261 
Saint Lucia202370 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines202359 
Suriname202319 
Trinidad and Tobago202064 
United States202227 
Uruguay20237 
Venezuela201266 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas201226 
02. Caribbean201246 
03. Central America201938 
04. North America201222 
05. South America201237 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).