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FY 2023 Survey of Prison Inmates Research and Development

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has periodically collected information through personal interviews with people in prisons since 1974 (see Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) at https: bjs.ojp.gov data collection survey prison inmates spi.) The purpose of this award is to provide funding for a collection agent to update and field test the existing 2016 SPI...

FY 2023 National Inmate Survey (NIS-4) Prisons

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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...

National Inmate Survey (NIS-4 Prisons) 2018-19

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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...