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5. Prisons
5.1.5 Foreign citizens held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions
"FOREIGN CITIZENS HELD" means the total number of persons (adults or juveniles) who do not have citizenship of your country 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.
FOREIGN CITIZEN is a person who does NOT have citizenship of your country; this excludes 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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Antigua and Barbuda2007114 
Argentina20236,914 
Bahamas2022123 
Barbados202371 
Belize2022147 
Bolivia20231,023 
Brazil20222,138 
Canada------ 
Chile20237,548 
Colombia20233,300 
Costa Rica20232,218 
Dominica202334 
Dominican Republic20231,776 
Ecuador20233,058 
El Salvador2019521 
Grenada202318 
Guatemala2023548 
Guyana202374 
Haiti------ 
Honduras2022150 
Jamaica202336 
Mexico20233,349 
Nicaragua2019218 
Panama20231,668 
Paraguay2023590 
Peru20234,581 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202220 
Saint Lucia202312 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20235 
Suriname2023112 
Trinidad and Tobago2020138 
United States2019137,500 
Uruguay2023373 
Venezuela20111,850 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean2023362 
03. Central America20197,699 
04. North America------ 
05. South America202328,854 
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