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5. Prisons
5.1.1 Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions on a specified day and should exclude non-criminal prisoners held for administrative purposes, for example, 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). Definition is also from the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS), Definitions Section.]



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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda2022233 
Argentina2022105,906 
Bahamas20221,319 
Barbados2022789 
Belize20221,035 
Bolivia202224,824 
Brazil2014607,731 
Canada202235,207 
Chile202245,067 
Colombia2022101,291 
Costa Rica202215,084 
Dominica2022378 
Dominican Republic202127,700 
Ecuador202231,812 
El Salvador201939,961 
Grenada2022428 
Guatemala202027,953 
Guyana20152,010 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201516,158 
Jamaica20223,843 
Mexico2022226,116 
Nicaragua201917,906 
Panama202222,357 
Paraguay202216,620 
Peru202293,137 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2022251 
Saint Lucia2022534 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2022564 
Suriname20221,045 
Trinidad and Tobago20203,700 
United States20221,808,100 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean202011,420 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America20212,020,713 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).