Mortality in Correctional Institutions: State Prisons, 2001-2019 (ICPSR 38035)

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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38035.v1

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MCI Prisons, 2001-2019

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Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) (formerly, the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)), is an annual data collection conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The MCI collection began in 2000 under the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-297). It is the only national statistical collection that obtains detailed information about deaths in adult correctional facilities. MCI collects data on persons dying in state prisons, local jails and in the process of arrest. Each collection is a separate subcollection, but each is under the umbrella of the MCI collection. This deals with the prison subcollection, which has a prison death file.

The prison portion of Mortality in Correctional Institutions began in 2001 after the passage of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 in October of 2000. The prison component of MCI collects data on inmate deaths occurring in the 50 state departments of corrections while inmates are in the physical custody of prison officials.

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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Mortality in Correctional Institutions: State Prisons, 2001-2019. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-12-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38035.v1

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

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City

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Due to the sensitive nature of the data and to protect respondent confidentiality, the data are restricted from general dissemination. They may only be accessed at the ICPSR Data Enclave in Ann Arbor, MI. Users wishing to view these data must first complete an Application for Use of the ICPSR Data Enclave (available for download as part of the documentation for this study), and receive permission to analyze the files before traveling to Ann Arbor. More general information about the enclave may be found at ICPSR's enclave data website.

Completed forms should be returned to: Director, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, P.O. Box 1248, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, or by fax: 734-647-8200.

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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2001 -- 2019

Date of Collection View help for Date of Collection

2001 -- 2019
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Individual-level death data are collected from the 50 state department of corrections in the United States.

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Cross-sectional

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Deaths of individuals incarcerated in state prisons.

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Individual

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State departments of corrections

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2021-12-16

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2021-12-16 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.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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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.

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