National Prisoner Statistics (NPS)

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) encourages comments for 60 days until April 11, 2017, on the extension of a currently approved collection: National Prisoner Statistics. 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 information will have practical utility...

RATES OF HIV/AIDS AND AIDS-RELATED DEATHS IN PRISON CONTINUE TO DECLINE

WASHINGTON – AIDS-related deaths among all state and federal prisoners dropped from 24 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 2001 to five per 100,000 in 2010, according to a...