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5. Prisons
5.4.2 Mortality of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions: Deaths due to external causes
Total number of deaths due to external causes, of persons held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions. Death due to external causes is defined as death caused by environmental events or by circumstances suggestive of environmental causes, including death due to intentional injury, such as homicide or suicide, and death caused by unintentional injury in an accidental manner. Deaths due to acute alcohol or drugs intoxication should be included. Persons sentenced to death by a competent authority and who were executed on the basis of a legal ruling while in prison should be excluded. [Source: Definitions are provided by the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS). Data are provided by Member States also through the very same UN-CTS.]

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Antigua and Barbuda20220 
Argentina202260 
Bahamas20220 
Barbados20220 
Belize20222 
Bolivia202210 
Brazil2016373 
Canada------ 
Chile202282 
Colombia202285 
Costa Rica202213 
Dominica20220 
Dominican Republic20207 
Ecuador2022198 
El Salvador201810 
Grenada20220 
Guatemala202221 
Guyana201620 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202228 
Jamaica20222 
Mexico2022107 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama20222 
Paraguay202236 
Peru20169 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20221 
Saint Lucia20220 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20220 
Suriname20220 
Trinidad and Tobago20150 
United States20191,455 
Uruguay202225 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
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).