BJS uses the SAFs to prepare publications that describe various aspects of Federal criminal case processing. For example, an offender convicted in two concurrent cases and committed once to the custody of BOP in a specified time period appears in the database as one admission to a term of incarceration. An offender who terminates probation twice in a time period, such as with a violation and again after reinstatement, appears as two terminations of probation. FJSP uses comparable offense categories to describe defendants at each stage of Federal criminal case processing. The Prisoner Tracking System files contain agency-arrest level data.
Data are available on matters and cases filed, pending, and terminated.
The information in the data files covers criminal proceedings from case filing through disposition and sentencing. Data are available on criminal defendants in cases filed, pending, and terminated. Contains information on defendants interviewed, investigated, or supervised by pretrial services. The information covers defendants' pretrial hearings, detentions, and releases from the time they are interviewed through the disposition of their cases in district court. Contains information on criminal appeals filed and terminated in the U.S. courts of appeals.