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5. Prisons
5.1.5 Foreign citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
"FOREIGN CITIZENS HELD" means the total number of persons (adults or juveniles) who do not have citizenship of your country 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.
FOREIGN CITIZEN is a person who does NOT have citizenship of your country; this excludes persons with dual-nationality.
CITIZENSHIP means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation.

[Sources: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).
Definitions of NATIONAL CITIZEN and CITIZENSHIP are provided by the UN-CTS and the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), p.100 footnote 167, respectively.]


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Antigua and Barbuda2007114 
Argentina20215,054 
Bahamas2021255 
Barbados202184 
Belize2020379 
Bolivia2020559 
Brazil20192,404 
Canada------ 
Chile20213,866 
Colombia20201,253 
Costa Rica20202,399 
Dominica202013 
Dominican Republic20211,857 
Ecuador20203,396 
El Salvador2019521 
Grenada202022 
Guatemala2020753 
Guyana202023 
Haiti------ 
Honduras2021134 
Jamaica202111 
Mexico20202,682 
Nicaragua2019218 
Panama20201,453 
Paraguay2019704 
Peru20202,284 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202010 
Saint Lucia202022 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines202012 
Suriname202074 
Trinidad and Tobago2020138 
United States2019137,500 
Uruguay2021348 
Venezuela20111,850 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
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