Survey of American prisons and jails, 1979
By: principal investigator, ABT Associates, Inc
Series: ICPSR -- 7899; ICPSR (Series) -- 7899
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Correctional institutions; Community-based corrections; Prisoners
Description: The Survey of American Prisons and Jails, 1979, was conducted by the ABT Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under a grant from the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. The survey consists of two parts, a survey of state and federal adult correctional systems and a survey of community based pre-release facilities. The surveys were an attempt to assess more precisely institutional conditions in state and federal prisons and in halfway houses. Questionnaires were mailed to 558 federal and state prisons and 405 community based pre-release facilities. The variables include inmate counts by sex and by security class, age of facility and rated capacity, spatial density, composition of inmate population according to race, age and offense type, inmate labor and earnings, and race, age, and sex characteristics of prison staff. This file was revised in Fall 1983 and now contains more descriptive variable information and revised missing data designations.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: 1979.

United States.

291 variables for 558 cases for the federal and state prison survey, 08 variables for 405 cases for the community based pre-release facilities.