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5. Prisons
5.1.5.% Foreign citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions (percentage)
It refers to the total number of “Foreign Citizens Held” as a PERCENTAGE of the total number of Persons Held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions [(Total Foreign Citizen held *100)/Total Persons held.]
“FOREIGN CITIZENS HELD” means the total number of persons (adults or juveniles) who do not have citizenship of your country (this excludes persons with dual-nationality), and is held in adult or juvenile 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: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]


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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda200753 
Argentina20236 
Bahamas20229 
Barbados202311 
Belize202212 
Bolivia20234 
Brazil20220 
Canada------ 
Chile202315 
Colombia20233 
Costa Rica202314 
Dominica20238 
Dominican Republic20237 
Ecuador202310 
El Salvador20191 
Grenada20235 
Guatemala20232 
Guyana20233 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20221 
Jamaica20231 
Mexico20231 
Nicaragua20191 
Panama20237 
Paraguay20233 
Peru20235 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20228 
Saint Lucia20232 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20231 
Suriname202311 
Trinidad and Tobago20204 
United States20197 
Uruguay20232 
Venezuela20114 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20120 
02. Caribbean20234 
03. Central America20195 
04. North America20220 
05. South America20233 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).