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5. Prisons
5.3.1 Number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions, UNSENTENCED, for MORE than 12 months
5.3.1 Number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions, UNSENTENCED, for MORE than 12 months

"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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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina202321,244 
Bahamas202262 
Barbados2023239 
Belize2022155 
Bolivia20239,226 
Brazil2019321,211 
Canada2022840 
Chile20232,831 
Colombia202315,367 
Costa Rica2023914 
Dominica202330 
Dominican Republic20235,762 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20193,073 
Grenada------ 
Guatemala20233,823 
Guyana2023622 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202335,334 
Nicaragua2019207 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru202321,346 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202279 
Saint Lucia2023413 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines202351 
Suriname2023152 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay------ 
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).