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5. Prisons
5.4.3 Mortality of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions: Deaths due to natural causes
Total number of deaths due to natural causes, of persons held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions. Death due to natural causes is defined as death by causes that are primarily attributable to an illness or an internal malfunction of the body not directly influenced by external forces, for example death from age-associated diseases, heart attacks or complications from virus infections.

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




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Antigua and Barbuda20212 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas20205 
Barbados20200 
Belize20190 
Bolivia202082 
Brazil2016494 
Canada------ 
Chile202065 
Colombia202064 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica20200 
Dominican Republic202065 
Ecuador202065 
El Salvador201864 
Grenada20181 
Guatemala2020128 
Guyana202010 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202128 
Jamaica20209 
Mexico2021774 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama202017 
Paraguay20204 
Peru2016229 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia20212 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20200 
Suriname20200 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States20193,912 
Uruguay201810 
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).