Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2014 (ICPSR 36352)
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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36352.v3
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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 the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 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 2014, 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.
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All known adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities in Indian country operated by tribal authorities or by the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), in 2014.
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2016-01-25
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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, 2014. ICPSR36352-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-08-04. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36352.v3
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