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4.1 Criminal Justice System Process | ICCS Crimes Levels 02 & 03
4.1.4.3 Persons entering prison for: Drug possession (ICCS 06011)
All persons entering Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions for Drug possession, during the course of the year.
This includes persons entering pre-sentence detention and persons entering prisons after a sentence was pronounced by a competent authority, as well as entries that occurred after the revocation, suspension or annulment of a conditional release or probation and entries that occurred due to transfers from a foreign country. Entry following a period of authorised absence or temporary prison leave should be excluded.

[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 Barbuda20220 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas2022204 
Barbados202234 
Belize202242 
Bolivia2022349 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile2021124 
Colombia------ 
Costa Rica2022201 
Dominica202211 
Dominican Republic2021345 
Ecuador20224,847 
El Salvador20229 
Grenada202211 
Guatemala2022408 
Guyana202272 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202250 
Jamaica202214 
Mexico202219,232 
Nicaragua20192,581 
Panama20221,400 
Paraguay------ 
Peru20186,031 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20225 
Saint Lucia20228 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines202214 
Suriname202244 
Trinidad and Tobago2020217 
United States201951,900 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
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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).