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National Prisoner Statistics (NPS)

Correctional Populations in the United States, 2022 – Statistical Tables and Probation and Parole in the United States, 2022

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Press Release

About 2% of adult U.S. residents under correctional supervision in 2022

WASHINGTON ― An estimated 5,407,300 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States at year-end 2022, and 3,668,800 of those were under community...

Public Comments Requested on the Proposed New BJS Data Collection: National Prisoner Statistics Program: Coronavirus Pandemic Supplement

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until February 8, 2021, on the proposed new data collection: National Prisoner Statistics program: Coronavirus Pandemic Supplement (NPS-CPan). 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 utility
  • the accuracy of...

Public Comments Requested on the Proposed Extension and Update of the Prison Population Reports: Summary of Sentenced Population Movement - National Prisoner Statistics

BJS encourages comments for 30 days until October 16, 2019, on a proposed update to a currently approved data collection: 2020 Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS). 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 utility
  • the accuracy...

Public Comments Requested on a Proposed Update to the 2020 Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until October 18, 2019, on the proposed extension and update of a currently approved data collection: Prison Population Reports: Summary of Sentenced Population Movement - National Prisoner Statistics. 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...

Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI)

The Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) is a periodic, cross-sectional survey of the state and sentenced federal prison populations. Its primary objective is to produce national estimates on the state and sentenced federal prison populations across a variety of domains, including but not limited to demographic characteristics, current offense and sentence, incident characteristics, firearm possession and sources, criminal history, socioeconomic characteristics, family background, drug and...