Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 36 / Tuesday, February 24, 2015 / Notices 9749 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[OMB Number 1121–0152] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed eCollection 

eComments Requested; Proposed 

Collection: Reinstatement With 

Changes of Previously Approved 

Collection for Which Approval Has 

Expired; Survey: Survey of Prison 

Inmates (Formerly Named the Survey 

of Inmates in State and Federal 

Correctional Facilities) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 

Department of Justice. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Justice 

(DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, 

Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be 

submitting the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted for 60 days until April 

27, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have additional comments 

especially on the estimated public 

burden or associated response time, 

suggestions, or need a copy of the 

proposed information collection 

instrument with instructions or 

additional information, please contact 

Lauren Glaze, Statistician, Bureau of 

Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20531 (email: 

Lauren.Glaze@usdoj.gov; telephone: 

202–305–9628). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written 

comments and suggestions from the 

public and affected agencies concerning 

the proposed collection of information 

are encouraged. Your comments should 

address one or more of the following 

four points: 

—Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Bureau of Justice 

Statistics, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

—Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

—Evaluate whether and if so how the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected can be 

enhanced; and 

—Minimize the burden of the collection 

of information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms 

of information technology, e.g., 

permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Reinstatement, with change, of a 

previously approved collection for 

which approval has expired. 

(2) The Title of the Form/Collection: 

Survey of Prison Inmates, 2015–2016 

(formerly named the Survey of Inmates 

in State and Federal Facilities). 

(3) The agency form number, if any, 

and the applicable component of the 

Department sponsoring the collection: 

The form number for the questionnaire 

is NPS–25. The applicable component 

within the Department of Justice is the 

Bureau of Justice Statistics (Corrections 

Unit), in the Office of Justice Programs. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals. Others: 

State government and Federal 

government. Affected public are prison 

inmates age 15 or older held in adult 

state or federal correctional facilities 

and the adult state and federal 

correctional facilities. The purposes of 

this omnibus survey are to generate 

reliable, nationally-representative 

estimates of the characteristics of 

prisoners in the United States, track 

changes in the characteristics of 

prisoners over time, conduct studies of 

prisoners on special topics, and identify 

policy-relevant changes in the prison 

population. The survey will also be 

used to produce subnational estimates 

of prisoners within jurisdictions that 

have the largest prison populations (i.e. 

100,000 or more) in the nation. The 

2015–2016 SPI survey builds upon prior 

surveys and is organized around the 

concepts of harm, risk, and reentry. 

Specifically, the harms that prisoners 

have perpetrated on society as measured 

by the severity of the offense, the 

incident characteristics of the offense 

and criminal history; the risk they pose 

for recidivism as measured by harm 

elements and additional risk factors 

such as ties to the community and 

mainstream institutions of social 

integration, such as pre-prison 

employment within the labor market; 

their challenges and expectations for 

reentry back into the community as 

measured by the SPI through the extent 

of substance abuse, mental health, and 

medical problems of prisoners, 

treatment they may have received for 

problems, programs in which they 

participated while in prison, and their 

motivation (i.e., intrinsic or extrinsic) to 

participate in programs. The data will 

be collected through face-to-face 

interviews with the inmates using 

Computer-Assisted Personal 

Interviewing (CAPI) technology. BJS has 

used the data from previous iterations of 

SPI to publish a variety of statistical 

products that profile prisoner 

characteristics over time and address 

important substantive and policyrelevant issues related to crime and 

corrections. The data are also used by a 

variety of stakeholders for these same 

purposes, including the U.S. Congress, 

Executive Office of the President, 

practitioners, researchers, students, the 

media, and others interested in criminal 

justice statistics. No other collection 

series provides these data on the variety 

of topics that SPI covers. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: The 2015–2016 SPI consists of 

a pretest and a national study. The 

pretest will include 2 state correctional 

facilities providing a roster of inmates at 

0.5 hours per facility for a total of 1 

hour; prison staff escorting 60 inmates 

to/from interview sites at 0.5 hours per 

inmate for a total of 30 hours; and 60 

inmates responding to the questionnaire 

at 1.00 hour per interview for a total of 

60 hours. The pretest will result in a 

total expected burden of approximately 

91 hours. For the SPI national study, a 

maximum of 416 state and federal 

correctional facilities will provide a 

roster of inmates at 0.5 hours per facility 

for a total of 208 hours; prison staff will 

escort a maximum of 33,200 inmates to/ 

from interview sites at 0.5 hours per 

inmate for a total of 16,600 hours; and 

a maximum of 33,200 inmates will 

respond to the questionnaire at 1.00 

hours per interview for a total of 33,200 

hours. The SPI national study will result 

in an expected maximum burden of 

approximately 50,008 hours. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The estimated total public 

burden is 50,099 annual hours. 

If additional information is required 

contact: Jerri Murray, Department 

Clearance Officer, United States 

Department of Justice, Justice 

Management Division, Policy and 

Planning Staff, Two Constitution 

Square, 145 N Street NE., 3E.405B, 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: February 19, 2015. 

Jerri Murray, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2015–03708 Filed 2–23–15; 8:45 am] 

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