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5. Prisons
5.1.2 Adults held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
"ADULTS HELD IN PRISONS" means the total number of adults 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.

[Source: 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 Barbuda2021239 
Argentina2021101,267 
Bahamas20211,881 
Barbados2021750 
Belize20211,020 
Bolivia202017,305 
Brazil2019755,274 
Canada202132,608 
Chile202140,530 
Colombia202196,913 
Costa Rica202015,495 
Dominica2020350 
Dominican Republic202127,198 
Ecuador202135,348 
El Salvador201938,115 
Grenada2021590 
Guatemala202025,251 
Guyana20212,035 
Haiti20139,904 
Honduras202120,190 
Jamaica20213,565 
Mexico2021219,027 
Nicaragua201917,723 
Panama202119,545 
Paraguay202115,277 
Peru202187,245 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2021132 
Saint Lucia2021483 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2020708 
Suriname2021958 
Trinidad and Tobago20203,616 
United States20211,765,000 
Uruguay202113,835 
Venezuela201248,262 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20123,637,066 
02. Caribbean201246,582 
03. Central America2019163,671 
04. North America20122,593,044 
05. South America2012901,219 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).