If you would like to know more about how RTI uses cookies and how to manage them please view our Privacy Policy here. The safety of individuals incarcerated in prisons and jails is fundamental to maintaining a functional criminal justice system. Because correctional facilities across the country are not a system at all, but a decentralized network of state prison systems and local jails, keeping track of deaths that occur when people are being held in custody is anything but simple.
RTI was chosen to handle the program starting in Our role includes collecting demographic data on individuals who die in prison or jail, along with why they were incarcerated, and details about the causes of death. We also collect data on the jail population in general, such as the number of admissions, number of releases, and the average daily population. To succeed at tracking deaths in custody, we must adapt to the varied needs of these facilities and draw on our expertise in multiple disciplines.
We use every data collection mode in our repertoire except for in-person interviews. Prisons and jails can respond to the survey via the web, mail, fax, bulk data files, or phone.
Our commitment to convenience for our respondents results in a cooperation rate of percent for state prisons and 96 percent of the 2, local jails we survey. To accommodate respondents and ensure accuracy, we receive and process supplemental data submissions or changes when they are received. We recognize that certain information about deaths in custody may not be available immediately, such as when a case goes to a medical examiner.
Institutions are able to report changes in their death statistics, even if it means we have to update previously provided data so it can be reflected in future reports.
This flexibility leads to better data for our client, the jails and prisons themselves, and policymakers. The Annual Survey of Jails provides more detail about the facilities, staff, budgets, and inmate populations of a sample of jails nationwide. The Census of Jails is a complete count of jail populations, done every four to six years.
By using RTI for all three of these projects, BJS makes the process more efficient and builds on our success communicating with jails and prison systems. Deaths of jail inmates on temporary furloughs or who escaped from the jail facility are excluded.
This longitudinal dataset includes year-end collections of population and admissions data from all jail jurisdictions nationwide annually, from to These files do not include death data. BJS collects death records and year-end collections of population and admissions data from all jail jurisdictions nationwide annually.
In addition, there are variables for the mean average daily population and the total sum average daily population across all years.
ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:.
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Analyze Online. Project Description. United States. Scope of Project. Time Period s View help for Time Period s -- Study Design View help for Study Design BJS collects death records and year-end collections of population and admissions data from all jail jurisdictions nationwide annually. Version s.
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