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6. Criminal Justice System Personnel & Capacity
6.5.1% Occupancy rate (based on official capacity)
"Occupancy rate" describes the total of persons held in prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions as a PERCENTAGE of the prison's system official capacity. [(Prison population * 100) / Official capacity].

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Antigua and Barbuda2009185 
Argentina2019123 
Bahamas2019105 
Barbados201961 
Belize201999 
Bolivia2012277 
Brazil2015188 
Canada201883 
Chile2019112 
Colombia2019154 
Costa Rica2017133 
Dominica2019178 
Dominican Republic2011173 
Ecuador2019133 
El Salvador2019139 
Grenada2019218 
Guatemala2019363 
Guyana2017148 
Haiti2009363 
Honduras2019146 
Jamaica201598 
Mexico2017145 
Nicaragua2019143 
Panama2019122 
Paraguay2019161 
Peru2019238 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2012195 
Saint Lucia2019102 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019100 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago2015208 
United States201997 
Uruguay2014105 
Venezuela2011270 
Regions
 
    
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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).