Deaths in Custody Reporting Program: Local Jails, 2000 - 2013

The Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) is an annual data collection conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The DCRP began in 2000 under the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-297). It is the only national statistical collection that obtains detailed information ab...

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Autor Corporativo: United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. VerfasserIn (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Research Data
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] 2016
En:Año: 2016
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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correctional facilities
Corrections
Death
Homicide
Suicide
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Sumario:The Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) is an annual data collection conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The DCRP began in 2000 under the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-297). It is the only national statistical collection that obtains detailed information about deaths in adult correctional facilities. The DCRP collects data on persons dying in state prisons, local jails and in the process of arrest. Each collection is a separate subcollection, but each is under the umbrella of the DCRP collection. This deals with the local jails subcollection, which has a local jail facilities death file. The jails portion of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program began in 2000 after the passage of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 in October of 2000. The jails component of the DCRP collects data on inmate deaths occurring in local jail facilities while inmates are in the physical custody of jail facility officials.
DOI:10.3886/ICPSR34286.v1