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Bureau of Justice Statistics Census Bureau formerly gathered the data for the Bureau of Justice Statistics Today most of the BJS surveys are being conducted by private vendors BJS collects huge variety of corrections data on: Prison and jail inmates Federal, state and local corrections facilities Corrections staffing Sexual victimization in custody 2 1:01

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Other BJS data collections State courts: Caseloads, criminal, civil, prosecutors, public defenders, civil rights cases Federal: Corrections, courts, prosecution, law enforcement Crime: National Crime Victimization Survey, UCR, identity theft, gangs, weapon use, et al. Employment and expenditure: Data from Census surveys of government and public employees Law enforcement: Census of State and Local LEAs, training, human trafficking, et al. 4 4:06

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections 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) 5 5:59

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit 6 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 7:16

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 7 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. 9:41

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 8 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 11:07

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 9 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. 12:43

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 10 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. 14:38

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 11 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). 16:33

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 12 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). 18:08

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 13 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.) 22:25

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 14 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 : ~ 14,000 inmates/300 state prisons; 6,000 inmates/53 BOP prisons. Planned for 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 :43

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit Corrections Unit Collections 15 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) 28:00

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit 16 Publications and Products Special Reports Veterans in State/Federal Prisons, 2004SPI-04 Medical Problems of Inmates, ’97; ’04SPI-97, SPI-04 Medical Problems of Jail Inmates, 2002SILJ-02 Drug Use & Dependence, State & Federal Prisoners, 2004SPI-04 Incarcerated Parents & Their Children, 1997; 2004*SPI-97, SPI-04 Mental Health Problems of Prison & Jail InmatesSPI-04, SILJ-02 Substance Dependence, Abuse, & Treatment of SILJ-02 Jail Inmates, 2002 Prison Rankings/Jail RankingsPREA Characteristics of Victims of Sexual Assault in Prison*PREA *Forthcoming Data Collections 29:12

BJS Corrections Statistics Unit 17 Data BriefsData Collections Medical Causes of Death in State Prisons, DCRP Deaths in Law Enforcement Custody, DCRP Mortality in Local Jails, (06)*DCRP Statistical Tables National Corrections Reporting Program Statistical TablesNCRP Deaths in Custody Statistical TablesNCRP *Forthcoming Publications and Products 30:25

National Crime Victimization Survey Collects information from a national sample of 76,000 households about experience with violent and property crime Conducted annually since 1973 Covers crime reported and not reported to police Measures more than FBI’s Uniform Crime Report BJS uses to calculate national victimization rates by types of crime for various groups Survey redesign being studied, including possibility of statistics below the national level 18 30:52

Using BJS data Get “Understanding Crime Statistics” beat book from IRE bookstore BJS website (bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov) for current data: Download CSV (comma-separated values) text files that can be imported into Excel Reports in PDF format Online query coming in 2012 Older data at National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (part of ICPSR.umich.edu) Free access Survey data analysis tool Some restrictions 19 36:49

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Some story ideas Size and cost of incarcerated population Jail booking fees Sex assaults in prisons and jails Recidivism Crackdown on probation causes crowded jails Mentally ill in prisons and jails Juveniles in adult jails and prisons 21 41:18

Contact: William Sabol Deputy Director, Statistical Collections & Analysis 22 44:35