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This report, the first required under the First Step Act of 2018, presents selected characteristics of federal prisoners and facility-level statistics, including?
- marital, veteran, citizenship, and English-speaking status
- education levels
- medical conditions
- participation in treatment programs
- number of assaults on staff by prisoners
- prisoners? violations that resulted in time-credit reductions
- facility characteristics related to accreditation, on-site health care, remote learning, video conferencing, and costs of prisoners? phone calls.
Findings are based on data from BJS?s First Step Act Supplement to the National Prisoner Statistics program, as required by Congress under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA; P.L. 115-391). Data were provided to BJS by the Federal Bureau of Prisons for calendar year 2018, which is prior to the enactment of the FSA.
Data Collected Under the First Step Act, 2019 (NCJ 254268) was written by BJS Statistician E. Ann Carson.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.
For more information on BJS publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.
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