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Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2019-06-13.
United States
All known adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities in Indian country operated by tribal authorities or by the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), in 2010. The original mail-out universe for this survey was 86 facilities. Prior to the survey collection, 7 facilities were closed or non-operational or out of scope, resulting in a survey universe of 79 facilities. During the survey collection, BJS determined that 4 facilities were holding cells and were out-of-scope, resulting in a final universe of 75 Indian country jails. BJS received responses from all 75 facility administrators.
Summary
The purpose of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country is an enumeration of all known adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)in the United States Department of the Interior. For the purpose of this collection, Indian country includes reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. The survey collects data on the number of adults and juveniles held on the last weekday in June 2010, type of offense, average daily population in June, most crowded day in June, admissions and releases in June, number of inmate deaths and suicide attempts, rated capacity, and jail staffing.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32841.v1