Census of state adult correctional facilities, 1979
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 7852; ICPSR (Series) -- 7852
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 21252
Subjects: Correctional institutions; Statistics; Corrections
Description: The study was designed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the United States Census Bureau. The census includes all state correctional facilities known to the Census Bureau in 1979. Each facility is classified into one of ten categories such as community center, prison farm, road camp, or reception center. Data for 1979 include number of inmates by security classification and by sex, number of full and part time staff, number of paid and volunteer staff broken down by position/age/pay/and education, number and age of facilities, type of facilities provided in each cell by size of cell, hospital facilities available, programs provided for the inmates, job training, and inmate IQ scores.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: 1979.

United States.

493 variables for the 791 facilities in the 1979 census; one record per facility.

Bureau of Justice Statistics. Census of State Correctional Facilities, 1979: Advance Report, NCJ-25642. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1979.