Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 1998: [United States] (ICPSR 2979)
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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02979.v3
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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.
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All adult and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian country in 1998.
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self-enumerated questionnaires
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2001-10-31
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2022-08-04 Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) studies are being updated to a combination release with certain sensitive variables masked in the public set at P.I. request and the complete study data present in the restricted set.
2021-11-22 All Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) data are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.
2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:- United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 1998: [United States]. ICPSR02979-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-08-04. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02979.v3
2001-10-31 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:
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