Learn more about BJS’s activities in April 2025. Click on the heading below for details.
View findings on maternal healthcare and pregnancy in correctional facilities
BJS released Maternal Healthcare and Pregnancy Prevalence and Outcomes in Prisons, 2023. This report provides statistics on pregnancy testing and positive tests among female admissions; pregnancy prevalence and outcomes by type; pregnancy-related training for staff, emergency transportation protocols, and medical services provided; accommodations and support services for pregnant and postpartum women; and provision of and participation in nursery or residential programs in which mothers reside with their children.
Findings in this report are based on data from the maternal health supplement to BJS’s annual National Prisoner Statistics collection (NPS-MatHealth), which BJS administered for the first time in 2024. The NPS-MatHealth collected 2023 data on maternal health in correctional settings from the departments of corrections of the 50 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
New report provides statistics on jail inmates
BJS released Jail Inmates in 2023 – Statistical Tables. It describes the number of persons held in local jails, inmate demographics, jail incarceration rates, conviction status and offense characteristics, the number of admissions to jail, persons supervised outside of jail, jail capacity, and staff employed in local jails. Findings in this report are based on the 2013 to 2018 and 2020 to 2023 Annual Survey of Jails and the 2019 Census of Jails. This report is the 37th in a series that began in 1982.
This year's report was released in an interactive, web-based format that provides enhanced navigation capabilities and new ways of displaying and accessing the statistics.
The 2023 Annual Survey of Jails dataset is now available
BJS released the Annual Survey of Jails, 2023 dataset through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. The collection provides national estimates on counts of persons held in local jails, admissions, releases, and staff; demographic characteristics and criminal justice status of the jail population; holds for federal and state prison authorities; and rated capacity of jails.
BJS discusses release of unredacted Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) data
BJS has provided to a third party an unredacted version of certain data submitted under the Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) data collection in response to a court order issued in the course of litigation that remains ongoing.
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