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    Race of Prisoners Admitted to State and Federal Institutions in the United States, 1926-1986

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

    This data collection includes tabulations of annual adult admissions to federal and state correctional institutions by race. Data are provided for the years 1926 to 1986 and include tabulations for prisons in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as federal prison totals and United States totals. The figures were derived from a voluntary reporting program in which each state, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported summary and detailed statistics as a part of the National Prisoner Statistics series. Individual state and United States population figures according to racial categories also are provided.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 275
    Data First Published 1991-05-03T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 1999-10-04T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Aicategory Not AI-ready
    Bureau Code 011:21
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 4ed8e404-c859-4eba-8f91-59167cc9d4fd
    Harvest Source Id 11827822-e56a-442a-9edb-6b249b7ddcc3
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Internalcontactpoint {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:askbjs@usdoj.gov"}
    Jcamsystem {"acronym": "OJP_EXT", "id": 8, "name": "External system not available in CSAM"}
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadatamodified 9/2/2022 6:21:00 PM
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Sourceidentifier https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09165
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b7b46e48037a307e55a6de1903ae449ba92252ce2366e561cb0b151ca4a80a55
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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