Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2023 (ICPSR 39184)

Version Date: Sep 30, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39184.v1

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Alternate Title

SJIC 2023

Summary

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 2023, 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, 2022 through June 30, 2023, rated capacity on June 30, and jail staffing on June 30, 2023.

Citation

United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2023. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-09-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39184.v1

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

City

Restrictions

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2022 -- 2023

Date of Collection

2023
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Sample

For 2023, the survey roster consisted of 97 facilities. Prior to the fielding of the survey, eleven facilities were nonoperational or out of scope. During the fielding of the survey, seven additional facilities were determined to be nonoperational or out of scope and one facility was added. Of the eighty active facilities, eight facilities, the San Carlos Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Adult Detention in Arizona, the Supai Law Enforcement and Holding Facility in Arizona, the Tohono O'odham Juvenile Detention Center in Arizona, the White Mountain Apache Detention Center in Arizona, the Fort Peck Indian Youth Service Center in Montana, the Rocky Boy Adult Detention Center in Montana, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Justice Center in North Carolina, the Pine Ridge Justice Center-Corrections in South Dakota, did not respond to the data collection. When comparing 2023 data to the resulting report, data on inmate populations were estimated for survey and item nonresponse. BJS used the most recent data available to impute the June midyear and peak populations, ADP, admissions, and rated capacity. Estimation procedures for inmate characteristics and jail staff are included in appendix tables 3 and 4 in Jails in Indian Country, 2023.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

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 2023.

Unit(s) of Observation

Jail facilities

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2024-09-30

Version History

2024-09-30 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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Weight

None.

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Notes

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