Datasets / Deaths in Custody Reporting Program: State Prisons 2001 - 2009


Deaths in Custody Reporting Program: State Prisons 2001 - 2009

Published By Department of Justice

Issued about 9 years ago

US
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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) is an annual data collection conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The DCRP began in 2000 under the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-297). It is the only national statistical co