Learn more about BJS’s activities in March 2026. Click on the headings below for details.
Prison rape data collection activities detailed in new BJS report
BJS released PREA Data Collection Activities, 2025, the 18th report in a series on Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) data collection activities. This report describes BJS’s data collection efforts in 2025 to measure the incidence and prevalence of rape and sexual assault in adult correctional and juvenile justice facilities, including three independent collections: the Survey of Sexual Victimization, the National Inmate Survey, and the National Survey of Youth in Custody.
View the latest statistics on American Indian and Alaska Native persons in the federal justice system
BJS released American Indian and Alaska Native Persons in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 2023. This report describes American Indian and Alaska Native persons processed at each stage of the federal justice system: arrest, prosecution, pretrial detention and release, sentencing, incarceration, and community supervision. Findings are based on data from BJS’s Federal Justice Statistics Program and other published sources.
BJS report presents law enforcement hiring and retention statistics
BJS released Hiring and Retention of State and Local Law Enforcement Officers, 2020 – Statistical Tables. This report presents statistics on the hires and separations of full-time sworn personnel by general-purpose law enforcement agencies and the incentives offered to retain them. Report findings are based on BJS’s 2020 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey.
Conducted periodically since 1987, the LEMAS survey collects data on a range of topics from a nationally representative sample of general-purpose state and local law enforcement agencies. General-purpose agencies include municipal, county, and regional police departments; most sheriffs’ offices; and primary state and highway patrol agencies.
New report reveals law enforcement data on violent and property crime
BJS released Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024. The report presents national and subnational estimates of crime offenses and victimizations for violent and property crime. Findings in this report, the second in an annual series, are based on BJS’s and the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Estimation Program. NIBRS collects detailed information on crime incidents reported to law enforcement throughout the United States.
BJS presents a decade of statistics on violent and property crime rates in the U.S.
BJS released The Nation's Two Crime Measures, 2015–2024. This report presents rates of violent and property crime from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the NIBRS Estimation Program’s Summary Estimates for the most recent 10-year period. The NCVS measures nonfatal criminal victimizations, reported and not reported to police. NIBRS collects data on fatal and nonfatal crime incidents reported by law enforcement. The NCVS and NIBRS collections have different purposes, use different methods, and measure a set of criminal offenses that are similar but not identical. Taken together, the information they produce provides a comprehensive understanding of crime in the United States.
View the latest statistics collected on federal prisoners under the First Step Act
BJS released Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected Under the First Step Act, 2025, a report required by the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA; P.L. 115–391). It details selected characteristics of persons in federal prisons, including marital, veteran, citizenship, and English-speaking status; education levels; medical conditions; and participation in treatment programs. The report also includes statistics that BJS is required to report at the facility level, such as the number of assaults on staff by prisoners, prisoners’ violations of rules that resulted in time credit reductions, and selected facility characteristics related to accreditation, on-site health care, remote learning, video conferencing, and costs of prisoners’ phone calls.
NIBRS extract files update: 2017-2023 data now available
BJS released updates of NIBRS extract files covering 2017 through 2023. These updates are now accessible through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data website.
BJS FY25 National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRSP) Assessment
BJS is seeking applicants for the BJS FY25 National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRSP) Assessment. This opportunity will fund a comprehensive review of the NPRSP, including assessment of current data collection, conducting methodological research, development, and testing, as well as recommendations to improve the program's future operations. This opportunity furthers DOJ’s mission by enhancing BJS’s data collection and analysis required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (P.L. 108–79).
- Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology 2026 Conference
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