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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.6.9 Persons held for: Acts against public safety and state security (ICCS 09)
Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions for “acts against public safety and state security”. “Persons held” means persons held 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. “Acts against public safety and state security” are those criminal offences defined in Section 09 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.82-88. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf] They include: Acts involving weapons, explosives and other destructive materials (0901), as: unlawful possession, use or trafficking of weapons, explosives chemical, biological or radioactive materials; Acts against health and safety (0902); Acts against computer systems (0903), as: unlawful access or interference with a computer system or computer data, and other acts against computer systems; Acts against state security (0904); Acts related to an organized criminal group (0905), as: participation or other acts related to an organized criminal group); Terrorism (0906), as: participation in, financing of, or other acts related to the activities of a terrorist group); Other acts against public safety and state security (0909); and subcategories of those, as listed on pp. 29-30 of the ICCS. [Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS)]

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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina20211,327 
Bahamas202188 
Barbados2021112 
Belize------ 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile202183 
Colombia202179,044 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica201914 
Dominican Republic20211 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador201914 
Grenada20210 
Guatemala------ 
Guyana201723 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20193,264 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202130,020 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia20193 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States202088,100 
Uruguay------ 
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).