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5. Prisons
5.1.4 National citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
Total number of national citizens held in 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.
NATIONAL CITIZEN is a person who has citizenship of your country; this includes persons with dual-nationality.
CITIZENSHIP means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation.

[Sources: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS). Definitions of NATIONAL CITIZEN and CITIZENSHIP are provided by the UN-CTS and the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), p.100 footnote 167, respectively.]


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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina202091,034 
Bahamas20201,204 
Barbados2019854 
Belize20201,444 
Bolivia202016,746 
Brazil2019673,730 
Canada------ 
Chile202040,313 
Colombia202095,032 
Costa Rica202013,295 
Dominica2020353 
Dominican Republic202025,113 
Ecuador202035,798 
El Salvador201939,440 
Grenada2020333 
Guatemala202024,626 
Guyana20201,844 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201921,452 
Jamaica20203,702 
Mexico2020208,470 
Nicaragua201917,688 
Panama202016,514 
Paraguay201914,893 
Peru202084,671 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2020191 
Saint Lucia2020487 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2020696 
Suriname2020756 
Trinidad and Tobago20157,388 
United States20191,936,100 
Uruguay202012,686 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).