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  • Survey of Jail Inmates, 1972

    Metadata Updated: February 13, 2023

    This study is a follow-up to the National Jail Census, 1970. In addition to gathering more information concerning jails, the survey also collected demographic data, incarceration history, and legal status data from a sample of the inmates of local jails. The study includes basic demographic data, income and employment data, reason for incarceration, bail status, dates of admission and sentencing, length and type of sentence and previous incarceration history.

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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 February 13, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 13, 2023
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 291
    Data First Published 1984-03-18T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 1992-02-16T00:00:00
    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
    Collection Package Id 7844930e-837d-45bf-a590-f2781bd2acd9
    Harvest Object Id 659a2d80-86c5-4052-a802-b1b04e01aa7e
    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 7feaa67a89a47dba3113966ff044b329fe217c9f
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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