Public comments requested on the proposed extension of a currently approved BJS data collection: National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP)

The Bureau of Justice Statistics encourages comments for 60 days until September 13, 2021?on the proposed extension of a currently approved data collection: National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP). Your comments on BJS?s request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the?Federal Register, should address such points as?

• whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
• the accuracy of the agency?s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of data, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
• whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced
• minimizing the burden of the data collection on respondents, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.
  
  

The NCRP collects offender-level administrative data annually on state prison admissions and releases, year-end custody populations, and parole entries and discharges in participating jurisdictions.

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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. Doris J. James is the acting director.

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