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Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2023
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The purpose of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country is an enumeration of all known adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), U.S. Department of the Interior. For the purpose of this collection, Indian country includes reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. The survey collects data on the number of adults and juveniles held on the last weekday in June 2023, type of offense, average daily population in June, most crowded day in June, admissions and releases in June, number of inmate deaths and suicide attempts from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, rated capacity on June 30, and jail staffing on June 30, 2023.
Detailed Methodology
For 2023, the survey roster consisted of 97 facilities. Prior to the fielding of the survey, eleven facilities were nonoperational or out of scope. During the fielding of the survey, seven additional facilities were determined to be nonoperational or out of scope and one facility was added. Of the eighty active facilities, eight facilities, the San Carlos Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Adult Detention in Arizona, the Supai Law Enforcement and Holding Facility in Arizona, the Tohono O'odham Juvenile Detention Center in Arizona, the White Mountain Apache Detention Center in Arizona, the Fort Peck Indian Youth Service Center in Montana, the Rocky Boy Adult Detention Center in Montana, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Justice Center in North Carolina, the Pine Ridge Justice Center-Corrections in South Dakota, did not respond to the data collection. When comparing 2023 data to the resulting report, data on inmate populations were estimated for survey and item nonresponse. BJS used the most recent data available to impute the June midyear and peak populations, ADP, admissions, and rated capacity. Estimation procedures for inmate characteristics and jail staff are included in appendix tables 3 and 4 in Jails in Indian Country, 2023.
- Survey (self- or interviewer-administered)