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

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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... (view full summary)

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

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