20 Table 1: General proportion of people in pretrial detention Number / percentage of pretrial detainees 11,410 (84%) 2,244 (16%) October 2012 549,577 (508,357 in the custody of the Penitentiary System and 41,220 held by states judicial police forces (Public Security Secretariats)) 191,024 (37.6%) (Of the 508,357 held by the Penitentiary System) 317,333 (62.4%) (Of the 508,357 held by the Penitentiary System) June 2012 Chile 53,171 10,823 (20.4%) 42,348 (79.6%) July 31, 2012 Colombia 113,884 34,571 (30.35%) 79,313 (69.65%) Costa Rica 13,017 3,248 (25%) 9,769 (75%) December 31, 2012 October 2012 El Salvador 26,883 6,459 (24%) 20,424 (76%) Ecuador 19,177 (At penal facilities managed by the Ministry of Justice and Human 67 Rights ) 9,768 (51%) (4,732 with enforceable judgments (25%), and 5,036 in appeals or modification) Guatemala 14,635 9,409 (49%) (8,630 awaiting trial, 377 misdemeanor offenders, 402 with constraining measures) 7,357 (50.3%) 7,278 (49.7%) October 2012 Honduras 12,407 6,064 (48.9%) 6,343 (51.1%) April 2013 Nicaragua 9,168 1,127 (12.3%) 8,041 (87.7%) December 31, 2012 Number of people deprived of liberty State Bolivia Brazil 65 13,654 66 Number / percentage of convicts Date of information October 8, 2013 August 1, 2012 65 The Bolivian State presented a departmental breakdown of this information, with the following numbers for “pretrial detention” and “convicted”: Santa Cruz (pretrial detainees 4,418 / convicted 658: total 5,076), Beni (557/197:754), Oruro (369/125:494), Potosí (420/91:511), Pando (166/79:245), Sucre (238/109:347), La Paz (2,784/359:3,143), Cochabamba (1921/354:2,275), and Tarija (205/310:515). 66 The Brazilian State also reported that, according to the Department of Monitoring and Oversight of the National Justice Council (CNJ), as of January 1, 2013, the country had a total of 502,067 prison inmates, of whom 193,073 (38%) were in pretrial detention. 67 The Ecuadorian State also indicated that there was a total of 1,310 pretrial detainees housed at temporary detention centers under the administration of the National Police.

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