FY 2023 National Inmate Survey (NIS-4) Jails

The National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRSP), developed upon passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, entails the collection of both administrative and self-report data on sexual violence from State and Federal prisons, locally operated jails, and public and private facilities for juvenile offenders in the nation. The National Inmate Survey (NIS) is one of the data collections developed under the NPRSP. The NIS is designed to estimate the incidence of sexual victimization in prisons and jails, to generate facility- and state-level rates of sexual victimization, and to support the ranking of facilities to determine which facilities in the U.S. have the highest and lowest rates of sexual victimization.