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5. Prisons
5.1.3 Juveniles held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
"Juveniles Held" means the total number of juveniles held in Prisons, Penal institutions, Correctional institutions or detention centers for juveniles on a specified day, and should exclude non-criminal minors held for administrative purposes, including juvenile persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or juvenile foreign citizens without a legal right to stay.
In the law a “JUVENILE” means a minor who is not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. “Juvenile” is a minor or person who is of certain minimum age but still under the age of legal competence. The minority is determined according to what each country’s legislation establishes; however, a majority of countries establish that a person is no longer a minor after reaching the age of 18. Therefore an individual charged with a crime who is between the minimum age established by the country’s legislation and (in most cases) 18, is considered a juvenile.


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Antigua and Barbuda20205 
Argentina2020908 
Bahamas202020 
Barbados202047 
Belize202079 
Bolivia20200 
Brazil201323,725 
Canada2019674 
Chile2020972 
Colombia20131,795 
Costa Rica2020199 
Dominica202016 
Dominican Republic2020536 
Ecuador2020465 
El Salvador20201,430 
Grenada20201 
Guatemala20201,278 
Guyana201512 
Haiti2011266 
Honduras2011274 
Jamaica2020191 
Mexico20201,386 
Nicaragua2019183 
Panama2020262 
Paraguay2020271 
Peru20201,520 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20206 
Saint Lucia20201 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20200 
Suriname202027 
Trinidad and Tobago2015148 
United States20202,700 
Uruguay2012500 
Venezuela2008887 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas201198,686 
02. Caribbean20111,964 
03. Central America20112,556 
04. North America201167,341 
05. South America201126,825 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).