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National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP)

State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) and National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP)

From 1988 through 2009, the National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP) and State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) collected and reported on court processing data for felony cases in a sample of the 75 most populous counties. The program prospectively tracked felony defendants from charging by the prosecutor until disposition of their cases (a maximum of 12 months for nonmurder cases and 24 months for murder cases)...