Collects detailed information on confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Information is gathered on inmate counts, movements, and facility operations and staff. In selected years additional information is collected on facility programs and services, such as medical assessments and mental health screening procedures, inmate work assignments, counseling, and educational programs.
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Survey of Jails in Indian Country | ||
2011 PDF (79K) | 2010 PDF (150K) | 2009 PDF (55K) | 2008 PDF (54K) | 2007 PDF | 2004 PDF | 2003 PDF | 2002 PDF | 2001 PDF | 2000 PDF | ||
Survey of Jails in Indian Country, Addendum | ||
2011 PDF (217K) | 2007 PDF | 2004 PDF |
Methodology |
The Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) includes all known Indian country correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or the U.S. Department of the Interior’s BIA. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) conducted the SJIC to describe all adult and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian country. For this collection, Indian country includes reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other appropriate areas (18 U.S.C. § 1151).
Annually, BIA provides BJS a list of Indian country jail facilities, including detention centers, jails, and other correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or BIA. BJS uses this list to update its existing roster of jails in Indian country. BJS obtains data from administrators of Indian country jails by faxed questionnaires and through follow-up phone calls and facsimiles.
In 2004, BJS contacted administrators in 70 facilities to participate in the survey. BJS received responses from 61 facilities. Seven facilities did not respond, and 2 facilities were not operating. In 2007, BJS's roster consisted of 86 facilities. Seventy-nine of the facility administrators responded to the survey, 4 did not respond, and 3 facilities were not operating. In 2008, BJS's roster of Indian country jails consisted of 85 facilities. BJS received responses from 82 facility administrators. There were no nonrespondents, and 3 facilities were not operating. In 2008, BJS's roster consisted of 86 facilities. BJS received responses from 80 facility administrators, there were no nonrespondents, and 6 facilities were not operating. Prior to the 2010 data collection, 1 facility in the 2009 universe was determined to be closed, resulting in a revised (79 facilities) facility count in 2010.
For 2011, BJS's roster consisted of 88 facilities. Prior to the survey collection, six facilities were closed, not operating, or out of scope, resulting in a survey universe of 82 facilities. During the survey collection, BJS determined that three additional facilities were holding cells and were out of scope, and one facility was added to the list, resulting in a final universe of 80 Indian country jails. BJS received responses from all 80 facility administrators.
Over the 7-year period, 11 facilities permanently closed and 21 facilities were newly constructed. Two facilities in 2011 (one adult and one juvenile) were treated as one respondent in 2010. A number of facilities were also determined to be out of scope of the survey, including four that were included in the 2009 survey, one in the 2010 survey, and three in the 2011 survey. BJS estimated inmate population counts for seven facilities in 2004 and four facilities in 2007 that did not respond to the surveys. All known operating facilities responded to the 2008 through 2011 surveys.
*For methodologies prior to the 2004 SJIC, please refer to the Jails in Indian Country series.
Changes Over Time |
Since beginning in 1998, the SJIC survey instrument has expanded to gather data on inmate admissions offenses, expanded population measurements (e.g., average daily population and offense categories), and inmate health services and facility programs.
Publications & Products |
Jails in Indian Country, 2011 Presents findings from the 2011 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 80 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
Press Release | PDF (1.2M) | ASCII file (23K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 58K) Part of the Jails in Indian Country Series |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2010 Presents findings from the 2010 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of all jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) on June 30, 2010. | |
Press Release | PDF (756K) | ASCII file (36K) | Spreadsheets (Zip format 32K) Part of the Jails in Indian Country Series |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2009 Presents findings from the 2009 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 80 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
Press Release | PDF (880K) | ASCII file (24K) | Spreadsheets (Zip format 19K) Part of the Jails in Indian Country Series |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2008 Presents findings from the 2008 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 82 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2007 Presents findings from the 2007 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 83 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
Press Release | PDF (745K) | ASCII file (30K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 40K) | To order paper version Part of the Jails in Indian Country Series |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2004 Presents findings from the 2004 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 68 confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
PDF (467K) | ASCII file (25K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 35K) | To order paper version Part of the Jails in Indian Country Series |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2003 Presents findings from the 2003 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of all 70 confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2002 Presents findings from the 2002 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of all 70 confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2001 Presents findings from the 2001 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of all 68 confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
PDF (192K) | ASCII file (21K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 31K) | Codebooks and Datasets Part of the Jails in Indian Country Series |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2000 Presents findings from the 2000 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of all 69 confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
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Inmates confined in Indian country jails, 2000-2004 and 2007 Figure 1 from Jails in Indian Country, 2007 | |
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Jails in Indian Country 2007 Table 7. Admissions, discharges, and average length of stay in Indian country jails during June, by facility size, 2007 Table 7 from Jails in Indian Country, 2007 | |
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Jails in Indian country that provided inmate treatment, counseling, and special programs, June 2007 Table 11 from Jails in Indian Country, 2007 | |
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Jails in Indian country with medical and mental health services and policies, by type, June 2007 Table 10 from Jails in Indian Country 2007 | |
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Number of Indian country jails and percent of inmate population, by facility size, June 2007 Table 3 from Jails in Indian Country 2007 | |
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Number of Indian country jails, by percent of capacity occupied, June 2007 Table 5 from Jails in Indian Country, 2007 | |
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Number of inmates confined in Indian country jails, by characteristic, June 2000-June 2007 Table 8 from Jails in Indian Country 2007 | |
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Jails in Indian Country, 2009 Presents findings from the 2009 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 80 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | |
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