National Inmate Survey (NIS)

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until June 8, 2020, on the proposed reinstatement and update of a previously approved data collection: National Inmate Survey in Jails (NIS-4J). Your comments on BJS's request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

• whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will...

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until January 31, 2020, on the proposed reinstatement and update of a previously approved data collection: National Inmate Survey in Prisons (NIS-4P). Your comments to BJS's request to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

• whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical...

ABOUT A THIRD OF PRISON AND JAIL INMATES REPORTED A DISABILITY IN 2011–12

WASHINGTON – An estimated 32 percent of state and federal prisoners and 40 percent of local jail inmates reported having at least one disability in...

NEARLY 10 PERCENT OF FORMER STATE PRISONERS
REPORTED BEING SEXUALLY VICTIMIZED DURING CONFINEMENT

WASHINGTON – An estimated 9.6 percent of adult former state prisoners reported being sexually victimized during their most recent period of confinement, the Justice...

Correctional Authorities Reported MORE THAN 14,800 Allegations of Sexual Victimization  in Prisons and Jails during 2007 and 2008

One in seven were confirmed after investigation

WASHINGTON – Federal, state and local correctional authorities reported an estimated 7,374 allegations of...