Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities Series
Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics
This series of studies contains a descriptive
analysis of federal and state-operated adult confinement and
correctional facilities nationwide. The census included prisons,
penitentiaries, and correctional facilities; boot camps; community
corrections; prison farms; reception, diagnostic, and classification
centers; road camps; forestry and conservation camps; youthful
offender facilities (except in California); vocational training
facilities; prison hospitals; and correctional drug and alcohol
treatment facilities. Variables include physical security, age of
facilities, functions of facilities, programs, inmate work
assignments, staff employment, facilities under court order/consent
decree for conditions of confinement, capital and operating
expenditures, custody level of residents/inmates, one-day and average
daily population counts, race/ethnicity of inmates, inmate deaths,
special inmate counts, and assaults and incidents by inmates. The
institution is the unit of analysis. The Census of State and Federal
Adult Correctional Facilities is produced every 5
years.