{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:askbjs@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "NATIONAL JAIL CENSUS, 1988, is the fifth in a series of\r\n data collection efforts aimed at studying the nation's locally\r\n administered jails. For purposes of this data collection, a jail was\r\n defined as a confinement facility intended for holding adults (and in\r\n some cases juveniles) pending adjudication or having sentences of a\r\n year or less. Jails were further defined as being administered and\r\n staffed by municipal or county employees. Also included in this\r\n collection were six jails privately operated under contract for local\r\n governments. Excluded from the census were federal or\r\n state-administered facilities, including the combined jail-prison\r\n systems in Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and\r\n Vermont. The mailing list used for the census was derived from data\r\n gathered from the AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION DIRECTORY OF\r\n JUSTICE AGENCIES, publications such as AMERICAN JAILS, telephone calls\r\n to large metropolitan jail systems (e.g., New York City), state jail\r\n inspection bureaus, and newspaper articles. Following the initial\r\n mailout to 3,448 facilities, 44 jails were added and 176 deleted\r\n according to the criteria for inclusion, leaving a total of 3,316\r\n facilities in 44 states. Variables include information on jail\r\n population by legal status, age and sex of prisoners, maximum\r\n sentence, admissions and releases, available services, structure and\r\ncapacity, expenditure, and employment.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09256.v2", "title": "National Jail Census, 1988"}], "identifier": "249", "isPartOf": "2169", "issued": "1990-03-02T00:00:00", "keyword": ["census data", "correctional facilities", "correctional system", "corrections management", "demographic characteristics", "inmate populations", "inmates", "jail inmates", "jails"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2005-11-04T00:00:00", "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}}, "title": "National Jail Census, 1988"}