Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 1998: [United States]

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary:

The objective of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country is to gather data on all adult and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian country, which is defined for purposes of this collection as reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. The survey, a complete enumeration of all 69 confinement facilities operated by tribal authorities or by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), provides data on number of inmates, staffing, and facility characteristics and needs. Variables describe each facility, including who operated it, facility age, facility function, rated capacity, authority to house juveniles, number of juveniles held, number of admission and discharges in last 30 days, number of inmate deaths, peak population during June, number of inmates held by sex and conviction status on June 30, number of facility staff by sex and function, facility crowding, renovation and building plans, types of programs available to inmates, and overview of facility and staffing needs.

Series: Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country Series

These data are freely available.

Dataset

Documentation:

Codebook.pdf

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U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. ANNUAL SURVEY OF JAILS IN INDIAN COUNTRY, 1998: [UNITED STATES]. Conducted by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02979.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02979.v1

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This survey was funded by:

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Subject Terms: correctional facilities, correctional system, corrections management, jail inmates, jails, Native Americans, population characteristics

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period:

1998

Date of Collection:

1998

Universe: All adult and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian country in 1998.

Data Types: survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: