The National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) collects administrative data annually on prison admissions and releases and on parole entries and discharges in participating jurisdictions. Demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence length, minimum time to be served, credited jail time, type of admission, type of release, and time served are collected from individual prisoner records. The collection began in 1983 and is conducted annually. Beginning in 1999, some jurisdictions also began providing a stock file for all inmates held at yearend. About 41 states provide various types of data for this collection.
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Administrative data are gathered annually from the Departments of Corrections and Parole in about 41 states on prisoners entering and leaving custody or supervision. Data are provided for prisoners who were admitted to prison (Part A), released from prison (Part B), or released from parole (Part C).Variables include incarceration history, current offenses, and total time served. Background information on individuals includes year of birth, sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, and educational attainment.
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The number of states providing information has varied over time, as has the ability of states to provide each piece of information requested.
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National Corrections Reporting Program, 2001 (CD-ROM) This National Corrections Reporting Program dataset contains admissions, releases and parole outcomes of persons in the Nation's prisons and parole systems. | |
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National Correction Reporting Program, 2000 (CD-ROM) Collects data annually on prison admissions and releases and on parole entries and discharges in participating jurisdictions. | |
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Profile of State Prisoners under Age 18, 1985-97 Presents trend data from 1985 to 1997 on persons under 18 in State prison, focusing primarily on persons admitted to prison under the age of 18: their demographic characteristics, offenses, average sentence length, and expected time served. | |
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1995 (Executive Summary) Presents data on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision for 1995. Paper copy only. | |
Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1994 (Executive Summary) This annual publication presents data for 1994 on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision. Paper copy only. | |
Full Report Detail (HTML) Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series |
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1993 This annual publication reports on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision for 1993. | |
Executive Summary Detail (HTML) | PDF (769K) | Codebooks and Datasets Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series |
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1993 (Executive Summary) This annual publication reports on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision for 1993. | |
Full Report Detail (HTML) | PDF (43K) | ASCII file (10K) | Codebooks and Datasets Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series |
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Violent Offenders in State Prison: Sentences and Time Served--State Inmates, 1992-94 Reports jurisdiction-level data on sentence length and time served for violent prison inmates who were admitted or released in 1992, 1993, and 1994. | |
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Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence Presents the time served by violent offenders released from State prisons in 1992; estimates the hypothetical impact on time served of changing the percentage of sentence served; and discusses how the States differ in percentage of sentence served. | |
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National Corrections Reporting Program, 1992 This report contains data collected by the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) concerning all prison admissions and releases and parole entries and discharges for calendar year 1992 in participating jurisdictions. | |
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National Corrections Reporting Program, 2009 - Statistical Tables (update) This update adds data for 2009 to the electronic series of selected tables on most serious offense, sentence length, and time served in state prison. | |
Sentence length of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, sex, and race (1993-2009) | Time served in state prison, by offense, release type, sex, and race (1993-2009) | Most serious offense of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin (1993-2009) |
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National Corrections Reporting Program: Most serious offense of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin Presents the number and percentage of most serious offense of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. | |
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National Corrections Reporting Program: Time served in state prison, by offense, release type, sex, and race Presents information on time served in state prison, by offense, release type, sex, and race. | |
1993 (Zip format 9K) | 1994 (Zip format 10K) | 1995 (Zip format 10K) | 1996 (Zip format 10K) | 1997 (Zip format 10K) | 1998 (Zip format 10k) | 1999 (Zip format 9K) | 2000 (Zip format 9K) | 2001 (Zip format 10K) | 2002 (Zip format 10K) | 2003 (Zip format 10K) | 2004 (Zip format 10K) | 2005 (Zip format 11K) | 2006 (Zip format 11K) | 2007 (Zip format 11K) | 2008 (Zip format 11K) | 2009 (Zip format 11K) |
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National Corrections Reporting Program: Sentence length of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, sex, and race Presents data on sentence length of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, sex, and race. | |
1993 (Zip format 11K) | 1994 (Zip format 12K) | 1995 (Zip format 11K) | 1996 (Zip format 12K) | 1997 (Zip format 13K) | 1998 (Zip format 10K) | 1999 (Zip format 8K) | 2000 (Zip format 10K) | 2001 (Zip format 11K) | 2002 (Zip format 10K) | 2003 (Zip format 11K) | 2004 (Zip format 10K) | 2005 (Zip format 10K) | 2006 (Zip format 11K) | 2007 (Zip format 11K) | 2008 (Zip format 11K) | 2009 (Zip format 11K) |
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Most serious offense state parole discharges, 2003: Method of parole discharge, by offense Table 14 of the 2003 National Corrections Reporting Program | |
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Parole violators returned to state prison, 2003: Offense, by age at admission Table 3 of the 2003 National Corrections Reporting Program | |
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Parole violators returned to state prison, 2003: Offense, by gender, race, and Hispanic origin Table 5 from the National Corrections Reporting Program, 2003 | |
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Unsuccessful first state parole discharges, 2003: Sentence length and time served by offense Table 16 from the National Corrections Reporting Program, 2003 | |
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