{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "restricted public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:askbjs@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) (formerly, the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)), is an annual data collection conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The MCI collection began in 2000 under the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-297). It is the\r\nonly national statistical collection that obtains detailed information\r\nabout deaths in adult correctional facilities. MCI collects data on\r\npersons dying in state prisons, local jails and in the process of\r\narrest. Each collection is a separate subcollection, but each is under the\r\numbrella of the MCI collection. This deals with the prison subcollection,\r\nwhich has a prison death file.\r\nThe prison portion of Mortality in Correctional Institutions began in 2001\r\nafter the passage of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 in October\r\nof 2000. The prison component of MCI collects data on inmate deaths\r\noccurring in the 50 state departments of corrections while inmates are in\r\nthe physical custody of prison officials.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37876.v1", "title": "Mortality in Correctional Institutions: State Prisons, 2001-2017"}], "identifier": "4196", "isPartOf": "2441", "issued": "2021-04-27T11:47:57", "keyword": ["correctional facilities", "corrections", "death", "homicide", "suicide"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2021-04-27T12:17:19", "programCode": ["011:061"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "Bureau of Justice Statistics", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "rights": "These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.", "title": "Mortality in Correctional Institutions: State Prisons, 2001-2017"}