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6. Criminal Justice System Personnel & Capacity
6.5.3a Official Capacity of Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions (Males of all ages)
“Official Capacity of Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions (Males of all ages)" means the intended number of places available at Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions for Males of all ages (including Juvenile institutions) as at 31 December, for which the facility was designed either at the time of construction of the prison facility or following structural refurbishments/renovations. This excludes places/capacity used for detention of persons on the basis of immigration status.

[Source: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS), Section on Definitions.]


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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas20191,500 
Barbados20191,172 
Belize20192,036 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile201935,648 
Colombia201973,870 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica2019280 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador201927,717 
El Salvador------ 
Grenada2019186 
Guatemala20196,773 
Guyana20171,425 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201914,020 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico2017123,297 
Nicaragua201911,695 
Panama201913,814 
Paraguay20166,242 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia2019480 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019798 
Suriname------ 
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).