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4.1 Criminal Justice System Process | ICCS Crimes Levels 02 & 03
4.1.4.3 Persons entering prison for: Drug possession (ICCS 06011)
All persons entering Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions for Drug possession, during the course of the year.
This includes persons entering pre-sentence detention and persons entering prisons after a sentence was pronounced by a competent authority, as well as entries that occurred after the revocation, suspension or annulment of a conditional release or probation and entries that occurred due to transfers from a foreign country. Entry following a period of authorised absence or temporary prison leave should be excluded.

[Source: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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Antigua and Barbuda20200 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas2020150 
Barbados202118 
Belize202061 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile2021124 
Colombia------ 
Costa Rica2018616 
Dominica202012 
Dominican Republic2021345 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20193,757 
Grenada20218 
Guatemala------ 
Guyana202011 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201794 
Jamaica202116 
Mexico202111,430 
Nicaragua20192,581 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru20186,031 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia20219 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2017172 
Suriname202112 
Trinidad and Tobago2020217 
United States201951,900 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
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04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
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