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5. Prisons
5.4.2.3 Mortality of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions: Deaths by accident or other causes
Total number of deaths by accidents or “other causes”, of persons held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions.
It INCLUDES deaths caused by unintentional injury in an accidental manner, as well as death by “other causes” such as: by environmental events or by circumstances suggestive of environmental causes. Deaths due to acute alcohol or drugs intoxication should be included.
It EXCLUDES deaths due to intentional injury, such as intentional homicide or suicide. Persons sentenced to death by a competent authority and who were executed on the basis of a legal ruling while in prison should be excluded

[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 Barbuda20210 
Argentina2020287 
Bahamas20200 
Barbados20200 
Belize20190 
Bolivia20200 
Brazil2016127 
Canada------ 
Chile20207 
Colombia20203 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica20200 
Dominican Republic20204 
Ecuador20209 
El Salvador20182 
Grenada20180 
Guatemala20204 
Guyana------ 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20210 
Jamaica20200 
Mexico202111 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama20201 
Paraguay202042 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia20211 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20200 
Suriname20202 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States2019581 
Uruguay20181 
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).