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Annual Survey of Jails: Jurisdiction-Level Data, 2003

Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

This collection provides annual data on jail populations across the nation and examines the "spillover" on local jails resulting from the dramatic growth in federal and state prison populations. These data are used to track growth in the number of jails and their capacities nationally, changes in the demographics of the jail population (including sex, race, and adult or juvenile status), supervision status of persons held, prevalence of crowding issues, and a count of non-United States citizens within the jail population.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOJ JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
Maintainer
Identifier 72
Data First Published 2007-05-25T00:00:00
Language eng
Data Last Modified 2008-03-27T13:15:14
Public Access Level public
Aicategory Not AI-ready
Bureau Code 011:21
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Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
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Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
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Jcamsystem {"acronym": "OJP_EXT", "id": 8, "name": "External system not available in CSAM"}
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Metadatamodified 9/2/2022 6:21:00 PM
Program Code 011:061
Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
Sourceidentifier https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04635
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 532ee42ae6ca6b017ddf902bf6e552c19544c98e87d86a25d3de18cd3e49b04a
Source Schema Version 1.1

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