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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.5.6 Persons entering prison for: Acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs (ICCS 06)
All persons entering prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions during the course of the year for “acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs”. 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 The criminal offences are defined in Section 06 of the ICCS, UNODC, 2015, p.63-67. They include: Unlawful acts involving controlled drugs or precursors (0601), which includes unlawful possession, purchase, use, cultivation or production of controlled drugs for personal consumption (06011), and unlawful trafficking, cultivation or production of controlled drugs or precursors not for personal consumption (06012); Unlawful acts involving alcohol, tobacco or other controlled substances (0602); Other acts involving controlled drugs or other psychoactive substances (0609), and other subcategories as also listed in the ICCS Controlled drugs are narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances scheduled as such under the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended, and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances [Source: Data are provided through the UN-CTS]

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Argentina20234,355 
Bahamas2021179 
Barbados202349 
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Canada------ 
Chile20239,534 
Colombia202310,975 
Costa Rica2023873 
Dominica20190 
Dominican Republic20211,352 
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El Salvador2019134 
Grenada20210 
Guatemala2023317 
Guyana20230 
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Honduras------ 
Jamaica202352 
Mexico202332,014 
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Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia202319 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines202320 
Suriname20236 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
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