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Description & Citation--Study No. 3318 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 3318 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03318 |
| Title: | National Jail Census, 1999 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Series: | National Jail Census Series |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Bibliographic Citation: | U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. NATIONAL JAIL CENSUS, 1999 [Computer file]. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2003. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03318 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | The 1999 Census of Jails is the seventh in a series of data collection efforts aimed at studying the nation's locally administered jails. Previous censuses were conducted in 1970, 1972, 1978, 1983, 1988, and 1993. The 1999 census enumerated 3,365 locally administered confinement facilities that held inmates beyond arraignment and were staffed by municipal or county employees. Among these were 47 privately operated jails under contract for local governments and 42 regional jails that were operated for two or more jail authorities. In addition, the census identified 11 facilities maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons that functioned as jails. The nationwide total of the number of jails in operation on June 30, 1999 was 3,376. For purposes of this data collection, a local jail was defined as a locally operated adult detention facility that receives individuals pending arraignment and holds them awaiting trial, conviction, or sentencing, readmits probation, parole, and bail-bond violators and absconders, temporarily detains juveniles pending transfer to juvenile authorities, holds mentally ill persons pending their movement to appropriate health facilities, holds individuals for the military, for protective custody, for contempt, and for the courts as witnesses, releases convicted inmates to the community upon completion of sentence, transfers inmates to federal, state, or other authorities, houses inmates for federal, state, or other authorities because of crowding of their facilities, relinquishes custody of temporary detainees to juvenile and medical authorities, operates community-based programs with day-reporting, home detention, electronic monitoring, or other types of supervision, and holds inmates sentenced to short terms. Variables include information on jail population by legal status, age and sex of prisoners, maximum sentence, admissions and releases, available services and programs, structure and capacity, facility age and use of space, expenditure, employment, staff information, and health issues, which include statistics on drugs, AIDS, and tuberculosis. |
| Subject Term(s): | census data, correctional facilities, correctional system, corrections management, demographic characteristics, inmate populations, inmate programs, inmates, jail inmates, jails |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | July 1, 1998 - June 30, 1999 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | June 30, 1999 |
| Universe: | All locally administered jails in the United States. |
| Data Type: | aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The documentation is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | official records |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2002-06-07 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04. |
| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. | |
| 2003-12-02 - The principal investigator supplied a revised dataset, which was fully processed and released as the second edition of the collection. Corresponding changes were made to the codebook and data definition statements. | |
| 2002-08-16 - The first part of Appendix A, a statistical program, was deleted from the codebook. | |
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