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Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)
Collects quarterly inmate death records from each of the nation's 50 state prison systems, 50 state juvenile correctional authorities, and over 3,000 local jail jurisdictions. In addition, this program collects quarterly records of all deaths occurring during the process of arrest. Data are collected directly from state and local law enforcement agencies.

Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)
Provides annual data on workload, activities, and outcomes associated with federal criminal cases. Information is acquired on all aspects of processing in the federal justice system, including the number of persons investigated, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, sentenced to probation, released pretrial, and under parole or other supervision; initial prosecution decisions, referrals to magistrates, court dispositions, sentencing outcomes, sentence length, and time served. The program collects data from the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), the Pretrial Services Agency (PSA), the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).


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