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Bureau of Justice StatisticsCensus Bureau formerly gathered the data

for the Bureau of Justice StatisticsToday most of the BJS surveys are being

conducted by private vendorsBJS collects huge variety of corrections data

on:Prison and jail inmatesFederal, state and local corrections facilitiesCorrections staffingSexual victimization in custody

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Other BJS data collectionsState courts: Caseloads, criminal, civil,

prosecutors, public defenders, civil rights casesFederal: Corrections, courts, prosecution, law

enforcementCrime: National Crime Victimization Survey,

UCR, identity theft, gangs, weapon use, et al.Employment and expenditure: Data from Census

surveys of government and public employeesLaw enforcement: Census of State and Local

LEAs, training, human trafficking, et al.

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BJS Corrections Statistics UnitCorrections Unit Collections

Major Statistics Programs (initial year of program):

National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) (1926)

National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) (1983)

Probation & Parole Statistics (parole 1975; probation 1977)

Jail Collection Program (JCP) (jail census, 1970; annual surveys

1982)

Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) (2000)

Inmate Surveys (jails 1972; prisons 1974)

Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA)

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BJS Corrections Statistics Unit

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BJS Bulletins

Annual

Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear

HIV in Prison

Prisoners (at yearend)

Capital Punishment

Probation & Parole in the United States

Jails in Indian Country

Survey of Sexual Violence

Prison Rankings on Sexual Violence

Jail Rankings on Sexual Violence

Data Collections

NPS-1A; ASJ

NPS-1

NPS-1B

NPS-8

P & P

JIC

SSV

NIS

NIS

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National Prisoner Statistics (NPS)

NPS-1A: Midyear (June 30) prisoner population counts: administrative survey.

State/Federal jurisdiction & custody prison population counts, gender, race/Hispanic origin, juveniles, noncitizens, prisoners in privately operated facilities.

State/Federal jurisdiction & custody prison population counts, prisoner movements, gender, race/Hispanic origin, prisoners in privately operated facilities; capacity; HIV; HIV testing.

NPS-1B: Yearend (December 31) prisoner population counts and movements: administrative survey.

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National Prisoner Statistics (NPS)

Territorial Prisons: Annual Survey. Prisoners in the departments of corrections in the U.S. Territories (American Samoa, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands) and U.S. Commonwealths (Northern Mariana Islands & Puerto Rico).

Persons held in U.S. military confinement facilities inside and outside of the continental U.S.; inmates by branch of service, gender, race, Hispanic origin; conviction status; sentence length; offense; facility capacity.

Persons held by ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) for immigration violations in Federal, State, local, and privately-owned facilities.

Military Corrections Statistics: Annual Survey

Bureau of Immigration Control and Enforcement Facilities

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National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) continued

Census of Adult Correctional Facilities: ~ every 5/6 years (2005).

Facility census providing information on facility characteristics, inmates, programs, and staff of State and Federal correctional facilities, and for private correctional facilities housing State or Federal inmates.

Costs of operating state prisons based on institutional corrections elements of Survey of Government Finance. Includes salary & wages, contractual services, construction, and medical.

Persons under sentence of death in State/Federal nonmilitary facilities; executions; death penalty statutes; capital offenses; method of execution.

State Prison Expenditures: ~ intermittent (2001).

Capital punishment (annual): individual-level records; state & federal laws.

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Individual prisoner records on prison admissions, releases, and parole discharges; demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence length, minimum time to be served, credited jail time, type of admission, type of release, time served, parole discharge method.

National Corrections Reporting Program (annual)

Prison admissions cohorts: up to 40 states.

Prison release cohorts: up to 40 states

Parole discharge cohorts: annual administrative data from up to 33 states.

Prison stock populations: annual administrative data from up to 26 states.

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Probation and Parole

Probation and parole populations at beginning and end of year; movements on and off of probation and parole; characteristics of probationers; methods of discharging from probation and parole.

Staffing and field offices; program operations, practices; PREA frame.

Organization of probation offices; staffing and operations; practices; possible sampling frame for survey of probationers.

Annual Survey of Probation in the U.S.: 466 probation agencies nationwide.

Annual Survey of Parole in the U.S.: 54 parole agencies.

Census of Adult Parole Supervising Agencies (2006).

Census of Probation Agencies (planned for 2012).

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Sample of about 900 jail administrators; population counts and characteristics of jail inmates; limited flow data.

Enumeration of confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Number of adults and juveniles held, type of offense, average daily population (ADP), peak population, admissions, deaths, capacity; medical and mental health services, suicide prevention, substance abuse dependency.

Information on each facility, programs, crowding, health care, drug testing policies and practices, work assignments.

Jail Collection Program

Annual Survey of Jails: ~ 900 local jail jurisdictions

Jails in Indian Country: 78 facilities in Indian country.

Census of Local Jails (2006) (every 5 years).

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Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) (annual)

Summary counts of deaths; incident records containing details on causes of death, attributes of decedent, characteristics of incidents related to deaths.

OJJDP staff have agreed to continue the juvenile collection.

Law enforcement deaths cover the time from arrest (or attempted arrest) up to booking in jail. Includes deaths in police lockups.

Deaths in Local Jails (all jails): Quarterly summary reports and incident reports for all deaths. (Begun in 2000)

State prisons (all prisons): Quarterly and incident reports. (Begun in 2001)

State juvenile facilities: Quarterly and incident reports.

Deaths in the process of arrest (law enforcement custody): Quarterly and incident reports; 47 state responders. (Begun in 2003.)

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Information about individual characteristics of prison inmates, current offense and sentence, criminal history, characteristics of victims, family background, substance use, medical conditions, mental health issues, services received.

Characteristics of jail inmates including offenses, conviction status, criminal histories, sentences, time served, drug and alcohol use and treatment, medical and mental health, family background.

Inmate Surveys

Survey of Inmates in State & Local Correctional Facilities (SPI): approx. every 5/6 years; nationally representative samples of prison inmates. 2003-04: ~ 14,000 inmates/300 state prisons; 6,000 inmates/53 BOP prisons. Planned for 2012.

Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ): approx. every 6 years; nationally representative samples of jail inmates. 2002: ~ 7,000 inmates in 417 local jails. Planned for 2013.

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NIS2007: Self-report accounts of sexual violence; facility-level sample (146 prison facilities, ~ 24,000 inmates; 282 local jails, 40,000+ inmates)

NSYC: Self-report accounts of sexual violence in juvenile facilities.

FPS: Nationally-representative sample of former prisoners currently on parole (~20,000); sexual assault experiences during incarceration.

Administrative records from samples of prison and jail facilities: Alleged and substantiated incidents of sexual assault

Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)

National Inmate Survey (NIS); 2007, 2008, 2010

National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC); in progress

Former Prisoner Survey (FPS): in progress

Survey of Sexual Violence (SSV)

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Publications and Products

Special Reports

Veterans in State/Federal Prisons, 2004 SPI-04Medical Problems of Inmates, ’97; ’04 SPI-97, SPI-04

Medical Problems of Jail Inmates, 2002 SILJ-02

Drug Use & Dependence, State & Federal Prisoners, 2004 SPI-04

Incarcerated Parents & Their Children, 1997; 2004* SPI-97, SPI-04

Mental Health Problems of Prison & Jail Inmates SPI-04, SILJ-02

Substance Dependence, Abuse, & Treatment of SILJ-02 Jail Inmates, 2002Prison Rankings/Jail Rankings PREA

Characteristics of Victims of Sexual Assault in Prison* PREA

*Forthcoming 2008.

Data Collections

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Data Briefs Data Collections

Medical Causes of Death in State Prisons, 2001-2001 DCRP

Deaths in Law Enforcement Custody, 2003-2005 DCRP

Mortality in Local Jails, 2001-2005(06)* DCRP

Statistical TablesNational Corrections Reporting Program Statistical Tables NCRP

Deaths in Custody Statistical Tables NCRP

*Forthcoming 2008.

Publications and Products

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National Crime Victimization Survey Collects information from a national sample of

76,000 households about experience with violent and property crime

Conducted annually since 1973Covers crime reported and not reported to policeMeasures more than FBI’s Uniform Crime ReportBJS uses to calculate national victimization rates

by types of crime for various groupsSurvey redesign being studied, including

possibility of statistics below the national level

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Using BJS dataGet “Understanding Crime Statistics” beat book

from IRE bookstoreBJS website (bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov) for current data:

Download CSV (comma-separated values) text files that can be imported into Excel

Reports in PDF formatOnline query coming in 2012

Older data at National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (part of ICPSR.umich.edu)Free accessSurvey data analysis toolSome restrictions

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Some story ideasSize and cost of incarcerated populationJail booking fees Sex assaults in prisons and jailsRecidivismCrackdown on probation causes crowded jailsMentally ill in prisons and jailsJuveniles in adult jails and prisons

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Contact: William Sabol

Deputy Director, Statistical Collections & Analysis

[email protected]

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