Tribal
Jails in Indian Country, 2021, and the Impact of COVID-19, July–December 2020
Jails in Indian Country, 2019–2020 and the Impact of COVID-19 on the Tribal Jail Population
National Survey of Tribal Court Systems (NSTCS)
The legal institutions in Indian country revolve around four main entities: indigenous or traditional courts, general jurisdiction courts, appellate courts, and the Bureau of Indian Affair’s Code of Federal Regulation courts. The National Survey of Tribal Court Systems (NSTCS) is the first complete enumeration of tribal court systems operating in the United States and gathers administrative and operational information from tribal court systems, prosecutors’...