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BJS FY 2021 Invited to Apply - FY 2021 2020-2021 Annual Survey of Jails COVID-19 Addendum

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applications for funding for collecting data on the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on U.S. jails from about 900 jails. The award recipient will implement a COVID 19 module as part of the Annual Survey of Jails collection for reference years 2020 and 2021. For each of the two data collection cycles, the recipient will program...

BJS FY 2021 Invited to Apply - National Inmate Survey (NIS-4) 2021-22 - Jails

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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...

FY 2021 Local Jail Reporting Program (LJRP) Pilot Test

Closing Date
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applications for funding for the Local Jail Reporting Program Pilot Test (LJRP Pilot) 2021. The award recipient will work with BJS over a period of 3 years to recruit 10 jails to provide individual level administrative record data to BJS for research purposes. The pilot data collection will provide information on jail admissions and releases, demographic characteristics...

FY 2021 National Census of Victim Service Providers

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Since 2015, between 2 and 4 billion has been allocated to crime victim services each year. BJS designed the National Census of Victim Service Providers (NCVSP) as a foundational data collection that describes the size and scope of the victim service provider field, monitors characteristics of agencies overtime, and describes the types of victims that receive services, particularly victims that are difficult to reach in...

Data by Topic

Click one of the options below to access BJS data by topic.  You'll be taken to the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) website where BJS stores our full datasets and related documentation.

Data

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)

BJS stores the full data sets, surveys, and codebooks for most of their data collections at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) as soon as the data have been finalized. These raw or ‘micro’ data are what analysts use to generate the summary data tables found within BJS reports, statistical tables, and data tools. The archived data...

Corrections

BJS Corrections data can be accessed in the following ways -

  • Full datasets and documentation
  • Publication Data Tables
  • Data Tools and Dashboards
  • Data Collections