[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1410-1412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-170]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Bureau of Justice Statistics

[OMB Number 1121-0094]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; 
Comments Requested

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Extension 
of a Currently Approved Collection; Annual Survey of Jails.

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    The Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Statistics, will 
be submitting the following information collection request to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed 
information collection is published to obtain comments from the public 
and affected agencies. Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 
``sixty days'' until March 12, 2010. This process is conducted in 
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.
    If you have comments especially on the estimated public burden or 
associated response time, suggestions, or need a copy of the proposed 
information collection instrument with instructions or additional 
information, please contact Todd D. Minton, Bureau of Justice 
Statistics, 810 Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531 (phone: 202-
305-9630).
    Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected 
agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are 
encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following 
four points:

--Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility;
--Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
--Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and
--Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses.

    Overview of this information collection:
    (1) Type of Information Collection: Revisions of a currently 
approved collection.
    (2) Title of the Form/Collection: The Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ). 
The collection includes the forms: Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ)-regular 
and long form, Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC)-regular form 
and addendum, and the Survey of Large Jails (SLJ).
    (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Form number(s): CJ-5 
and CJ-5A (ASJ regular form), CJ-5 and CJ-5A (ASJ long form), CJ-5B 
(SJIC form), CJ-5B Addendum (SJIC), and CJ-5C (SLJ form). Corrections 
Statistics Unit, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice 
Programs, United States Department of Justice.
    (4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as 
well as a brief abstract:
    Primary: County, City, and Tribal jail authorities. This collection 
is the only effort that provides an ability to maintain important jail 
statistics in years between jail censuses. The ASJ series enables the 
Bureau; Federal, State, local, and Tribal correctional administrators; 
legislators; researchers; and planners to track growth in the number of 
jails and their capacities nationally; as well as, track changes in the 
demographics and supervision status of jail population and the 
prevalence of crowding. Information collected in the long form and 
survey addendums provide critical data on jail population movements and 
inmate mental and medical health services and other programs available 
to confined inmates.
    For CJ-5 and CJ-5A (ASJ regular form), 561 respondents from county 
and city jails will be asked to provide information for the following 
categories:
    (a) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), the number of 
inmates confined in jail facilities including; male and female adult 
and juvenile inmates; persons under age 18 held as adults; convicted 
and unconvicted males and females; race categories; held for Federal 
authorities, State prison authorities and other local jail 
jurisdictions;
    (b) At midyear, the number of persons under jail supervision who 
were not U.S. citizens;
    (c) Whether the jail facilities has a weekend incarceration program 
prior to midyear and the number of inmates participating;
    (d) The number of new admissions into and final discharges from 
jail facilities during the last week in June;
    (e) The date and count for the greatest number of confined inmates 
during the 30-day period in June;
    (f) The average daily population of jail facilities from July 1 of 
the previous year to June 30 of the current collection year;
    (g) At midyear, the total rated capacity of jail facilities;
    (h) At midyear, the number of persons under jail supervision but 
not confined (e.g., electronic monitoring, day reporting, etc.).
    For CJ-5B (SJIC form), respondents from 85 Indian country 
correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs (BIA) will be asked to provide information for the 
following categories:
    (a) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), the number of 
inmates confined in jail facilities including; male and female adult 
and juvenile inmates; persons under age 18 held as adults; convicted 
and unconvicted males and females; persons held for a felony, 
misdemeanor; their most serious offense (e.g., domestic violence 
offense, aggravated or simple assault, driving while intoxicated, 
etc.).
    (b) The average daily population during the 30-day period in June;
    (c) The date and count for the greatest number of confined inmates 
during the 30-day period in June;
    (d) The number of new admissions into and final discharges during 
the month of June;
    (e) From July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the current 
collection year: the number of inmate deaths while confined and the 
number of deaths attributed to suicide and the number of confined 
inmates that attempted suicide;
    (f) At midyear, the total rated capacity of jail facilities;
    (g) At midyear, the inmate housing characteristics and the number 
held (e.g., single occupied cells or rooms, multiple occupied units 
originally designed for single occupancy; multiple occupied units 
designed for multiple occupancy, temporary holding areas, etc.);
    (h) At midyear, whether or not the jail facility was under a 
Tribal, State, or Federal court order or consent decree to limit the 
number of persons it can house (and the count), and/or for conditions 
of confinement;

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    (i) At midyear, the number of male and female correctional staff 
employed by the facility and their occupation (e.g., administration, 
jail operations, educational staff, etc.);
    (j) At midyear, how many jail operations employees had received the 
basic detention officer certification and how many had received 40 
hours of in-service training;
    (k) From July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the current 
collection year: how many jail operation employees did the facility 
hire for employment; how many jail operation employees were separated 
from employment in the facility;
    (l) At midyear, how many specific jail operation employee positions 
were vacant.
    The ASJ long form (CJ-5 and CJ-5A), the SLJ (CJ-5C), and the SJIC 
survey addendum (CJ-5B Addendum) provides BJS a vehicle to gather 
expanded, yet critical information from jails on:
     Flows of inmates going through jails and describing the 
jail inmate population that reflect jail workload;
     Length of stay in jail and the contribution of length of 
stay to jail populations;
     Medical, mental health, and substance abuse treatment 
services issues in jails;
     Suicide prevention, domestic violence counseling, sex 
offender treatment, educational programs, and inmate work assignments, 
and other inmate programs;
     Staff characteristics and assaults on staff resulting in 
death.
    For CJ-5 and CJ-5A (ASJ long form), in addition to similar 
information collected on the regular form, 373 respondents that are 
included with certainty in the ASJ sample survey will be asked to 
provide expanded and additional information for the following 
categories:
    (a) Expanded information on: The number of convicted inmates that 
are unsentenced or sentenced and the number of unconvicted inmates 
awaiting trial/arraignment, or transfers/holds for other authorities; 
persons discharged from jails to include the timed served by convicted 
and unconvicted inmates;
    (b) Expanded information on the number of confined inmates held for 
reasons including detoxification holds only, persons held for 
protective custody, for contempt, or for the courts as witnesses;
    (c) At midyear, the number of correctional officers and other staff 
employed by jail facilities;
    (d) From July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the current 
collection year: the number of inmate-inflicted physical assaults (and 
counts) on correctional officers and other staff and the number of 
staff deaths as a result.
    For the CJ-5B Addendum (SJIC), a one-time collection between 2010 
and 2012 will be administered to 85 respondents. Information for the 
following categories will be requested:
    (a) How does the facility provide medical health services to 
inmates (e.g., on-site staff physicians, IHS, off-site medical 
services, etc.);
    (b) At midyear, whether the jail facilities detoxify confined 
persons (and count) from drugs or alcohol;
    (c) Policy for testing inmates for Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and C, 
and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes aids (e.g., at 
admission, at regular intervals, random sample, indication of need, 
etc.);
    (d) How does the facility provide mental health services to inmates 
(e.g., screen inmates at intake, 24-hour mental health care; counseling 
by a trained mental health professional, monitor the use of 
psychotropic medications, assist released inmates to obtain community 
mental health services, etc.);
    (e) Types of specific suicide prevention procedures (e.g., 
assessment of risk at intake, special inmate counseling or psychiatric 
services, monitoring of high risk inmates; suicide, etc.);
    (f) From July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the current 
collection year, whether facility has inmate work assignments and the 
types of assignments;
    (g) From July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the current 
collection year, counseling or special programs available to confined 
persons either on or off facility grounds (e.g., drug/alcohol 
counseling/awareness, domestic violence counseling, etc.);
    (h) From July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the current 
collection year, educational programs available to confined persons 
either on or off facility grounds.
    For CJ-5C (SLJ form), a one-time collection between 2010 and 2012 
will be administered to 210 respondents from the largest county and 
city jails. Information on mental and medical health and substance 
abuse treatment services issues will be requested:
    Mental health treatment and services
    (a) During the 31-day period in (month), the number of new 
admissions to the jail facility that are male and female, adult and 
juvenile inmates;
    (b) Whether the jail facility conducts mental health screening at 
intake, the type(s) of screening instruments, and when does the 
screening process occur (e.g., within 24 hours of booking, in an 
emergency or crisis situation, etc.);
    (c) Who conducts the mental health screener (e.g., correctional 
staff, mental health professional, etc.);
    (d) During the 31-day period in (month), the number of persons with 
new admissions to the jail facility that were screened at intake for 
mental health disorders or emotional problems and the number determined 
to have a major depressive symptoms, major manic symptoms, major 
psychotic symptoms;
    (e) What services to inmates are provided when the intake screening 
reveals a mental health disorder (e.g., referral for further testing/
assessment, contacted a mental health professional, moved to a special 
housing facility and under special observation, etc.);
    (f) During the 31-day period in (month), the number of inmates who 
received mental health treatment and the type(s) of treatment;
    (g) Designated area with a beds allocated under the authority of a 
physician with mental health services and 24 hour nursing coverage? How 
many beds are for inmates and the number of beds occupied;
    (h) Jail facility discharge plan for inmates who needed mental 
health care? Who provides this service linkage? What agencies 
administer this service? What agency pays for this service.
    Substance abuse treatment and services and other programs
    (i) Whether the jail facility conducts medical detoxification on 
confined persons and the number of persons who were being detoxified;
    (j) During the 31-day period in (month), the number of persons with 
new admissions to the jail facility that:
    (1) Were tested for the use of drugs at intake and how many tested 
positive;
    (2) Participated in counseling or special programs (e.g., drug/
alcohol counseling/awareness, domestic violence counseling, etc.);
    (3) Participated in an education program (e.g., basic adult 
education (ABE), GED program, and college level classes, etc.).
    (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount 
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: Six hundred and 
forty-six respondents each taking an average 75 minutes to respond for 
collection forms CJ-5 and CJ-5A (regular ASJ form), and CJ-5B (SJIC 
form). Three hundred and seventy-three respondents each taking 120 
minutes to respond for collection forms CJ-5 and CJ-5A (ASJ long form). 
Eighty-five respondents each taking an average of 30 minutes to respond 
for collection form CJ-5B Addendum

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(SJIC). Two hundred and ten respondents each taking an average of 4 
hours to respond for collection form CJ-5C (SLJ form).
    (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated 
with the collection: There are an estimated 2,436 total burden hours 
associated with this collection.
    If additional information is required contact: Lynn Bryant, 
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, 
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Patrick Henry 
Building, Suite 1600, 601 D Street, NW., Washington, DC 20530.

    Dated: January 5, 2010.
Lynn Bryant,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
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