Race of Prisoners Admitted to State and Federal Institutions in the United States, 1926-1986

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Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics; Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary: This data collection includes tabulations of annual adult admissions to federal and state correctional institutions by race. Data are provided for the years 1926 to 1986 and include tabulations for prisons in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as federal prison totals and United States totals. The figures were derived from a voluntary reporting program in which each state, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported summary and detailed st... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09165.v1

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