Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2018 (ICPSR 38020)

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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38020.v3

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  • V3 [2022-08-04]
  • V2 [2021-11-22] unpublished
  • V1 [2021-04-29] unpublished
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SJIC 2018

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 2018, 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 from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018, rated capacity on June 30, and jail staffing on June 30, 2018.

United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2018. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-08-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38020.v3

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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 2018.

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2021-04-29

2022-08-04 Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) studies are being updated to a combination release with the certain sensitive variables masked in the public set at the request of BJS and the complete data available 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.

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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  • 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.