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Surveys

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...

FY 2023 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2024-27

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The goals of this project are to field the survey instrument and to analyze the data it collects to produce high quality and accurate statistics and analyses for the 2024 through 2027 iterations of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC). In addition, BJS expects the award recipient to recommend enhancements for the SJIC, cognitively test revised and new questions, and field an addendum...