State and Federal Corrections Information Systems
Reports on a recently completed inventory of information systems in State and Federal
departments of adult corrections intended to establish a basis for improving the capacity to
provide comparable data and to facilitate cross-jurisdictional research. Conducted by the Urban
Institute, the study addresses concerns raised by the State-Federal Committee of the
Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) about the absence of common
definitions of corrections performance measures and lack of knowledge about what correctional
information systems actually contain. The report organizes 207 offender-based data elements
into four stages of corrections processing and then into 28 groupings of relatively homogeneous
elements. 8/98 NCJ 170016
Executive Summary: Acrobat
file (87K)| ASCII text file (33K)
Full report: Acrobat file(788K) |
ASCII text file (161K)
- Chapter 1: Profiling and describing offenders
- Acrobat file (54K)| Supporting spreadsheet (9K)
- Chapter 2: Committing offenders into correctional authority
- Acrobat file(80K) | Supporting spreadsheet (19K)
- Chapter 3: Managing offenders in corrections facilities
- Acrobat file (77K) | Supporting spreadsheet (18K)
- Chapter 4: Supervising offenders on release and maintaining public safety
- Acrobat file (66K) | Supporting spreadsheet (12K)
- Chapter 5: Facility management information
- Acrobat file (27K)| Supporting spreadsheet (7K)
- Chapter 6: Reporting capabilities
- Acrobat file (83K) | Supporting spreadsheet (19K)
- Chapter 7: An emprical core
- Acrobat file (92K) | Supporting spreadsheet (17K)
- Chapter 8: Using the Inventory report
- Acrobat file (30K) |
- Appendices
- Acrobat file (322K) | Supporting spreadsheet (45K)
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