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    • National Corrections Reporting Program, 1985

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

    This study was conducted to provide a consistent and comprehensive description of convicted persons' entrance into and departure from correctional custody and correctional supervision. To accomplish this goal, data were gathered from official state prison records on topics such as race, sex, and age of inmates, length of time in jail, length of time in prison, and type of offense committed. The data were collected from the state prison systems of 40 states, the Federal Prison System, and the California Youth Authority.

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    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. 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

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 1060
    Data First Published 1990-03-02T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2010-04-26T09:36:27
    Rights These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Aicategory Not AI-ready
    Bureau Code 011:21
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    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
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    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Internalcontactpoint {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:askbjs@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 6:21:00 PM
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Sourceidentifier https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08918
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9acc9ac1d0b97af679958fe03fa5ab145af7f12b6b30f0cebc0e0a5c8f3f47ed
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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