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FY 2023 NCHIP

15PBJS-23-GK-01437-NCHI
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$2,580,000

FY 2023 Federal Deaths in Custody Reporting Program Supplement

Closing Date
Per the Federal Deaths in Custody Reporting Act statute (P.L. 113 242), the head of federal law enforcement agencies are required to submit a report that contains information regarding the death of any person while that person is detained, under arrest, or in the process of being arrested by federal law enforcement officers or while in custody. In response to the legislation, BJS was designated...

Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
SUNDAY, June 2, 2002 202/307-0784

TWO-THIRDS OF FORMER STATE PRISONERS REARRESTED FOR SERIOUS NEW CRIMES

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Sixty-seven percent of former inmates released from state prisons in 1994 committed at least one serious new crime within the following three years, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was a rearrest rate 5 percent...