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5. Prisons
5.1.4 National citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
Total number of national citizens held in 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.
NATIONAL CITIZEN is a person who has citizenship of your country; this includes persons with dual-nationality.
CITIZENSHIP means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation.

[Sources: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS). Definitions of NATIONAL CITIZEN and CITIZENSHIP are provided by the UN-CTS and the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), p.100 footnote 167, respectively.]


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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina2023104,332 
Bahamas20221,196 
Barbados2023710 
Belize20221,052 
Bolivia202327,815 
Brazil2022640,999 
Canada------ 
Chile202345,452 
Colombia2023101,905 
Costa Rica202313,745 
Dominica2023372 
Dominican Republic202323,660 
Ecuador202328,119 
El Salvador201939,440 
Grenada2023360 
Guatemala202322,658 
Guyana20232,209 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202219,308 
Jamaica20233,684 
Mexico2023227,112 
Nicaragua201917,688 
Panama202322,263 
Paraguay202317,246 
Peru202390,178 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2022231 
Saint Lucia2023573 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2023485 
Suriname2023974 
Trinidad and Tobago20203,562 
United States20191,936,100 
Uruguay202315,041 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean20239,367 
03. Central America2019158,275 
04. North America------ 
05. South America20231,070,708 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).