Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2017 (ICPSR 38017)

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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38017.v2

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  • V2 [2021-11-22]
  • V1 [2021-04-29] unpublished

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SJIC 2017

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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), U.S. 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 2017, 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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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2017. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-11-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38017.v2

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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

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Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage

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City

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Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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2017

Date of Collection View help for Date of Collection

2017
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Time Method View help for Time Method

Cross-sectional

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Adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities in Indian country operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), U.S. Department of the Interior in the United States in 2017.

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Jail facilities.

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2021-04-29

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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.

2021-04-29 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:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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None.

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  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.