BJS has released Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected Under the First Step Act, 2024, a report required by the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA; P.L. 115-391). It details select characteristics of persons in prison, including marital, veteran, citizenship, and English-speaking status; education levels; medical conditions; and participation in treatment programs. It also includes statistics BJS is required to report at the facility level, such as the number of assaults on staff by prisoners, prisoners’ violations of rules that resulted in time credit reductions, and selected facility characteristics related to accreditation, on-site health care, remote learning, video conferencing, and costs of prisoners’ phone calls.
Findings in the report derive from data collected by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) and provided to BJS. BJS supplemented FBOP data with data from its 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates and National Prisoner Statistics program’s Summary of Sentenced Population Movement.
Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected Under the First Step Act, 2024 (NCJ 309537) was written by BJS Statistician Derek Mueller, PhD. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS’s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov.
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. Kevin M. Scott, PhD, is the acting director.
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