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5. Prisons
5.2.1.% Persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions, UNSENTENCED (Males and Females) (percentage)
Total number of "Persons Held Unsentenced" as a PERCENTAGE of the total number or persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions [Persons Held Unsentenced (%) = TNPU*100 /TNPH, where TNPU= total number of persons held unsentenced, and TNPH= total number or persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions.] "PERSONS HELD UNSENTENCED" refers to persons held in adult and/or juvenile Prisons, Penal institutions or Correctional institutions who are untried, pre-trial or awaiting a first instance decision on their case from a competent authority regarding their conviction or acquittal. INCLUSIONS: Persons held before and during the trial should be included. EXCLUSIONS: Sentenced persons held awaiting the outcome of an appeal in respect of verdict or sentence or who are within the statutory limits for appealing their sentence should be excluded. [Source: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda202238 
Argentina202241 
Bahamas202226 
Barbados202260 
Belize202237 
Bolivia202266 
Brazil201930 
Canada202248 
Chile202237 
Colombia202224 
Costa Rica202221 
Dominica202259 
Dominican Republic202158 
Ecuador202241 
El Salvador201927 
Grenada202260 
Guatemala202235 
Guyana202144 
Haiti201373 
Honduras202251 
Jamaica202228 
Mexico202239 
Nicaragua201921 
Panama202237 
Paraguay2021681 
Peru202238 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202261 
Saint Lucia202264 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines202262 
Suriname202238 
Trinidad and Tobago202064 
United States202227 
Uruguay20229 
Venezuela201266 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas201226 
02. Caribbean201246 
03. Central America201938 
04. North America201222 
05. South America201237 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).