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    • Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, 2005

    Metadata Updated: February 13, 2023

    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 the Census. Earlier censuses were completed in 1979 (ICPSR 7852), 1984 (ICPSR 8444), 1990 (ICPSR 9908), 1995 (ICPSR 6953), and 2000 (ICPSR 4021). For each facility, information was provided on physical security, age, functions, capacity, court orders for specific conditions, one-day counts and average populations, race/ethnicity of inmates, inmate work assignments, inmate deaths, special inmate counts, assaults, and incidents caused by inmates.

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

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 13, 2023

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 13, 2023
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2009-04-03T11:24:27
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2017-05-12T10:43:33
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 011:21
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    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f89835f0296bca7ac6219c41d7953f377bc26e80
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