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Data collections

BJS proposes data collection revisions: Annual Survey of Jails, Deaths in Custody Reporting Program - Local Jails, and Survey of Jails in Indian Country

The Bureau of Justice Statistics encourages comments for 60 days until July 17, 2017, on revisions to currently approved data collections: Annual Survey of Jails, Deaths in Custody Reporting Program - Local Jails, and Survey of Jails in Indian Country. Your comments to BJS's requests to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such...

BJS Proposes Data Collection Extension: Annual Probation Survey and Annual Parole Survey

The Bureau of Justice Statistics encourages comments for 62 days until June 26, 2017, on the extension of a currently approved data collection: Annual Probation Survey and Annual Parole Survey. Your comments to BJS's requests to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

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

National Inmate Survey (NIS-4) 2018-19

Closing Date
On September 4, 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108 79). The act requires BJS to carry out, for each calendar year, a comprehensive statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape. The act further instructs BJS to collect survey data: the Bureau shall use surveys and other statistical studies of current...