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5. Prisons
5.1.5.% Foreign citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions (percentage)
It refers to the total number of “Foreign Citizens Held” as a PERCENTAGE of the total number of Persons Held in Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions [(Total Foreign Citizen held *100)/Total Persons held.]
“FOREIGN CITIZENS HELD” means the total number of persons (adults or juveniles) who do not have citizenship of your country (this excludes persons with dual-nationality), and is held in adult or juvenile prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions on a specified day, and should exclude non-criminal prisoners held for administrative purposes, including persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or foreign citizens without a legal right to stay.

[Source: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]


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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda200753 
Argentina20225 
Bahamas20229 
Barbados202211 
Belize202212 
Bolivia20223 
Brazil20190 
Canada------ 
Chile202212 
Colombia20223 
Costa Rica202214 
Dominica20225 
Dominican Republic20217 
Ecuador202210 
El Salvador20191 
Grenada20223 
Guatemala20223 
Guyana20211 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20221 
Jamaica20220 
Mexico20221 
Nicaragua20191 
Panama20227 
Paraguay20223 
Peru20224 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20228 
Saint Lucia20222 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20223 
Suriname20227 
Trinidad and Tobago20204 
United States20197 
Uruguay20222 
Venezuela20114 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20120 
02. Caribbean20120 
03. Central America20195 
04. North America20120 
05. South America20120 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).