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    • Characteristics and Movement of Felons in California Prisons, 1851-1964

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

    Felons in the California prison system are documented in this data collection. The data are arranged by year and type of movement within the prison system, and include admissions, paroles, parole violations, suspensions or reinstatements of parole, discharges, deaths, and executions. Each record contains information on certain characteristics of the person involved, such as age at admission, race, marital status, education, military history, occupation, number of prior arrests, escape record, date and type of releases, and parole violations.

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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 August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Justice
    Maintainer
    Identifier 3719
    Data First Published 1985-03-18T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 1992-02-16T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Aicategory Not AI-ready
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id d9939a4e-bf0d-44e1-aa54-e8c17fdf68f4
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Internalcontactpoint {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Jennifer Scherer", "hasEmail": "mailto:Jennifer.Scherer@usdoj.gov"}
    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 6:22:00 PM
    Program Code 011:060
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > National Institute of Justice
    Sourceidentifier https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07971
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 935a212e7c256e5a95324a4c2df6cd3a24029411c5eed086557d8e26ba8145ee
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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