National Corrections Reporting Program, 1987 United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics correctional facilities correctional facilities (juveniles) correctional system demographic characteristics federal correctional facilities jail inmates juvenile offenders national crime statistics (USA) offenders offenses parole prison inmates probation state correctional facilities ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.III 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 35 states, as well as the Federal Prison System and the California Youth Authority, and the District of Columbia. 2010-04-23 administrative records data event/transaction data survey data 9402 10.3886/ICPSR09402.v3 official prison records of prisoner population movement United States 1987 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).