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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 15, 2021 at 01:51 PM

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics Conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, this survey is part of a series of data gathering efforts undertaken to assist policymakers in...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 12, 2017 at 10:43 AM

This census is the seventh enumeration of state adult correctional institutions and the fourth of federal institutions sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the Bureau of...

• V3

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 23, 2015 at 03:04 PM

The National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC) is part of the BJS National Prison Rape Statistics Program to gather mandated data on the incidence of prevalence of sexual assault in juvenile...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 21, 2001 at 12:00 AM

This census is the fourth enumeration of state adult correctional institutions and the first of federal institutions sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the Bureau of...

• V2

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 27, 2021 at 08:18 AM

The National Inmate Survey, 2011-2012 (NIS-3) was conducted in 233 state and federal prisons between February 2011 and May 2012; 358 jails between February 2011 and May 2012; and 15 special...

• V2

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

Conducted by the Bureau of the Census, this survey provides nationally representative data on state prison inmates and sentenced federal inmates held in federally owned and operated...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This study of prison rapes used an ethnographic, culturally relativistic methodology and was conducted between April 2004 and September 2005. The study was conducted in 30 correctional ...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 04, 2013 at 10:55 AM

The National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC) is part of the BJS National Prison Rape Statistics Program to gather mandated data on the incidence of prevalence of sexual assault in juvenile...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 10, 2008 at 03:21 PM

In 1996, the United States Congress enacted two policies to regulate the use of the legal system by state prisoners. They were the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

The purpose of this survey was to obtain information on the characteristics of persons confined to prison and the circumstances and conditions of their confinement. The survey focuses on...

• V3

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 12, 2019 at 08:49 AM

This survey provides nationally representative data on inmates held in state prisons and federally-owned and operated prisons. Through personal interviews conducted from October 2003 through...

• V6

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: August 03, 2012 at 02:33 PM

Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, Congress mandated that the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) investigate former prisoners' experiences in...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 21, 2003 at 12:00 AM

This census is the fifth enumeration of state adult correctional institutions and the second of federal institutions sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the Bureau...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: June 16, 2022 at 02:25 PM

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics This series of studies contains a descriptive analysis of federal and state-operated adult confinement and correctional facilities...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 14, 2021 at 10:55 AM

In partnership with the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC), this study a) collected prison administrative data to create person-level cohort-analysis files of inmates admitted to and released...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM

Data for this study were collected as part of the 2007 National Inmate Survey (NIS), which is comprised of two questionnaires -- a survey of sexual victimization and a survey of past drug and...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This survey provides nationally representative data on persons held in federal prisons. The survey was designed to supply information on individual characteristics of prison inmates, such...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This census is the sixth enumeration of state adult correctional institutions and the third of federal institutions sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the Bureau...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This census, designed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, includes all state correctional facilities known to the Census Bureau in 1979. ...

• V2

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 10, 2018 at 10:23 AM

The National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC) is part of the BJS National Prison Rape Statistics Program to gather mandated data on the incidence of prevalence of sexual assault in juvenile...

• V1