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6. Criminal Justice System Personnel & Capacity
6.6.1 Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions (number of facilities)
Prison facility denotes a building, or a group of buildings under common administration or sharing common services, used for the detention of prisoners.

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


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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina2021324 
Bahamas20196 
Barbados20211 
Belize20211 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada2020226 
Chile2021110 
Colombia2021133 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica20211 
Dominican Republic202146 
Ecuador202147 
El Salvador201927 
Grenada20211 
Guatemala201927 
Guyana20176 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201925 
Jamaica202111 
Mexico2021317 
Nicaragua20199 
Panama202118 
Paraguay202126 
Peru202179 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia20211 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20193 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay202126 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America20195,354 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).