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    • National Jail Census, 1970

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    This census provides information on county and municipal jails facilities in the United States and their administration. For all jails, the data include number of prisoners and their reason for being held, age and sex of prisoners, maximum sentence that could be served in the facility, facility capacity and age, types of security available, and operating expenditures. For jails in counties and municipalities with populations of 25,000 or more, data are supplied on quarterly jail population, age of cells, and availability of service facilities and programs for inmates.

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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 November 14, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 245
    Data First Published 1984-03-18T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2005-11-04T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    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
    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 53e03a315062a52483e94912b5bdd8b511fdca227908832d97729eb83aa83575
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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