ICPSR Metadata record for Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2004 ICPSR 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/). Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2004 SJIC 2004 United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2012-09-20 31981 doi://10.3886/ICPSR31981.v1
The purpose of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country is an enumeration of all known adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in the United States Department of the Interior. For the purpose of this collection, Indian country includes reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. The survey collects data on the number of adults and juveniles held on the last weekday in June 2004, type of offense, average daily population in June, most crowded day in June, admissions and releases in June, number of inmate deaths and suicide attempts, rated capacity, and jail staffing.
 UniverseScheme31981 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00158. ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.VI Alaskan Natives correctional facilities correctional system corrections management jail inmates jails Native Americans population characteristics United States 2004 2004 jail facilities survey data All known adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities in Indian country operated by tribal authorities or the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Department of the Interior in the United States in 2004. 2004 2004

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