Status: Active
Frequency: Annually starting 1983.
Latest data available: 2009
The National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) collects administrative data
annually on prison admissions and releases and on parole entries and discharges in
participating jurisdictions. Demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence
length, minimum time to be served, credited jail time, type of admission, type of
release, and time served are collected from individual prisoner records. The
collection began in 1983 and is conducted annually. Beginning in 1999, some
jurisdictions also began providing a stock file for all inmates held at yearend. About
41 states provide various types of data for this collection.
| On This Page |  |
| Data Experts |  |
Thomas Bonczar, Statistician
Elizabeth Carson, Statistician
| Collection Period | |
1983-2009
| Documentation | |
| Methodology | |
Administrative data are gathered annually from the Departments of Corrections and Parole in about 41 states on prisoners entering and leaving custody or supervision. Data are provided for prisoners who were admitted to prison (Part A), released from prison (Part B), or released from parole (Part C).Variables include incarceration history, current offenses, and total time served. Background information on individuals includes year of birth, sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, and educational attainment.
| Changes Over Time | |
The number of states providing information has varied over time, as has the ability of states to provide each piece of information requested.
| Publications & Products | |
The following publications and products were generated by BJS using data from this collection.
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National Corrections Reporting Program, 2001 (CD-ROM)
This National Corrections Reporting Program dataset contains admissions, releases and parole outcomes of persons in the Nation's prisons and parole systems. |
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HTML | To order paper version
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National Correction Reporting Program, 2000 (CD-ROM)
Collects data annually on prison admissions and releases and on parole entries and discharges in participating jurisdictions. |
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Profile of State Prisoners under Age 18, 1985-97
Presents trend data from 1985 to 1997 on persons under 18 in State prison, focusing primarily on persons admitted to prison under the age of 18: their demographic characteristics, offenses, average sentence length, and expected time served. |
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Press Release | PDF (125K) | ASCII file (40K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 104K) | Codebooks and Datasets
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1995 (Executive Summary)
Presents data on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision for 1995. Paper copy only. |
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Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1994 (Executive Summary)
This annual publication presents data for 1994 on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision. Paper copy only. |
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Full Report Detail (HTML)
Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1993
This annual publication reports on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision for 1993. |
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Executive Summary Detail (HTML) | PDF (769K) | Codebooks and Datasets
Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series
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Correctional Populations in the United States, 1993 (Executive Summary)
This annual publication reports on the growing number of persons in the United States under some form of correctional supervision for 1993. |
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Full Report Detail (HTML) | PDF (43K) | ASCII file (10K) | Codebooks and Datasets
Part of the Correctional Populations in the United States Series
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Violent Offenders in State Prison: Sentences and Time Served--State Inmates, 1992-94
Reports jurisdiction-level data on sentence length and time served for violent prison inmates who were admitted or released in 1992, 1993, and 1994. |
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PDF (75K) | ASCII file (23K) | Codebooks and Datasets
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Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence
Presents the time served by violent offenders released from State prisons in 1992; estimates the hypothetical impact on time served of changing the percentage of sentence served; and discusses how the States differ in percentage of sentence served. |
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PDF (41K) | ASCII file (16K) | Codebooks and Datasets
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National Corrections Reporting Program, 1992
This report contains data collected by the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) concerning all prison admissions and releases and parole entries and discharges for calendar year 1992 in participating jurisdictions. |
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PDF
Part of the National Corrections Reporting Program Series
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National Corrections Reporting Program, 2009 - Statistical Tables (update)
This update adds data for 2009 to the electronic series of selected tables on most serious offense, sentence length, and time served in state prison. |
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Sentence length of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, sex, and race (1993-2009) | Time served in state prison, by offense, release type, sex, and race (1993-2009) | Most serious offense of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin (1993-2009)
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National Corrections Reporting Program: Most serious offense of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin
Presents the number and percentage of most serious offense of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. |
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1993 (Zip format 12K) | 1994 (Zip format 12K) | 1995 (Zip format 12K) | 1996 (Zip format 12K) | 1997 (Zip format 12K) | 1998 (Zip format 12K) | 1999 (Zip format 12K) | 2000 (Zip format 12K) | 2001 (Zip format 12K) | 2002 (Zip format 11K) | 2003 (Zip format 12K) | 2004 (Zip format 12K) | 2005 (Zip format 12K) | 2006 (Zip format 13K) | 2007 (Zip format 13K) | 2008 (Zip format 13K) | 2009 (Zip format 13K)
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National Corrections Reporting Program: Time served in state prison, by offense, release type, sex, and race
Presents information on time served in state prison, by offense, release type, sex, and race. |
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1993 (Zip format 9K) | 1994 (Zip format 10K) | 1995 (Zip format 10K) | 1996 (Zip format 10K) | 1997 (Zip format 10K) | 1998 (Zip format 10k) | 1999 (Zip format 9K) | 2000 (Zip format 9K) | 2001 (Zip format 10K) | 2002 (Zip format 10K) | 2003 (Zip format 10K) | 2004 (Zip format 10K) | 2005 (Zip format 11K) | 2006 (Zip format 11K) | 2007 (Zip format 11K) | 2008 (Zip format 11K) | 2009 (Zip format 11K)
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National Corrections Reporting Program: Sentence length of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, sex, and race
Presents data on sentence length of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, sex, and race. |
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1993 (Zip format 11K) | 1994 (Zip format 12K) | 1995 (Zip format 11K) | 1996 (Zip format 12K) | 1997 (Zip format 13K) | 1998 (Zip format 10K) | 1999 (Zip format 8K) | 2000 (Zip format 10K) | 2001 (Zip format 11K) | 2002 (Zip format 10K) | 2003 (Zip format 11K) | 2004 (Zip format 10K) | 2005 (Zip format 10K) | 2006 (Zip format 11K) | 2007 (Zip format 11K) | 2008 (Zip format 11K) | 2009 (Zip format 11K)
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Most serious offense state parole discharges, 2003: Method of parole discharge, by offense
Table 14 of the 2003 National Corrections Reporting Program |
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Download CSV file (Spreadsheet 4 KB)
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Parole violators returned to state prison, 2003: Offense, by age at admission
Table 3 of the 2003 National Corrections Reporting Program |
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Spreadsheet (3 KB)
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Parole violators returned to state prison, 2003: Offense, by gender, race, and Hispanic origin
Table 5 from the National Corrections Reporting Program, 2003 |
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Download CSV file (Spreadsheet 3 KB)
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Unsuccessful first state parole discharges, 2003: Sentence length and time served by offense
Table 16 from the National Corrections Reporting Program, 2003 |
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Download CSV file (Spreadsheet 4 KB)
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