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5. Prisons
5.1.3 Juveniles held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
"Juveniles Held" means the total number of juveniles held in Prisons, Penal institutions, Correctional institutions or detention centers for juveniles on a specified day, and should exclude non-criminal minors held for administrative purposes, including juvenile persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or juvenile foreign citizens without a legal right to stay.
In the law a “JUVENILE” means a minor who is not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. “Juvenile” is a minor or person who is of certain minimum age but still under the age of legal competence. The minority is determined according to what each country’s legislation establishes; however, a majority of countries establish that a person is no longer a minor after reaching the age of 18. Therefore an individual charged with a crime who is between the minimum age established by the country’s legislation and (in most cases) 18, is considered a juvenile.


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Antigua and Barbuda20221 
Argentina2022853 
Bahamas20227 
Barbados2022100 
Belize202216 
Bolivia20220 
Brazil201323,725 
Canada2022431 
Chile20221,009 
Colombia20223,431 
Costa Rica2022177 
Dominica202211 
Dominican Republic20223,415 
Ecuador2022374 
El Salvador20222,907 
Grenada20220 
Guatemala20201,278 
Guyana201512 
Haiti2011266 
Honduras2011274 
Jamaica2022176 
Mexico20221,311 
Nicaragua2019183 
Panama2022423 
Paraguay2022177 
Peru20223,260 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20220 
Saint Lucia20226 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20220 
Suriname202220 
Trinidad and Tobago202084 
United States20222,300 
Uruguay2012500 
Venezuela2008887 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas201198,686 
02. Caribbean20111,964 
03. Central America20112,556 
04. North America20214,078 
05. South America201126,825 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).