[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 116 (Friday, June 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36002-36003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-14612]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[OMB No. 1121-0065]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; 
Comments Requested: Extension of a Currently Approved Collection; 
National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP)

ACTION: 60-Day Notice.

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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 August 14, 2012. 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 Elizabeth Ann Carson, Ph.D., Bureau of 
Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street NW., Washington, DC 20531 
(phone: 202-616-3496).
    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: Extension of a currently 
approved collection.
    (2) Title of the Form/Collection: National Corrections Reporting 
Program. The collection includes the forms: Prisoner Admission Report, 
Prisoner Release Report, Parole Release Report, Prisoners in Custody at 
Yearend Report.
    (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Form number(s): NCRP-
1A, NCRP-1B, NCRP-1C, and NCRP-1D. 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: The National Corrections Reporting Program 
(NCRP) is the only national data collection furnishing annual 
individual-level information for state prisoners at four points in the 
incarceration process: prison admission; prison release; annual yearend 
prison custody census; and discharge from parole/community corrections 
supervision. BJS, the U.S. Congress, researchers, and criminal justice 
practitioners use these data to describe annual movements of adult 
offenders through state correctional systems, as well as to examine 
long term trends in time served in prison, demographic and offense 
characteristics of inmates, sentencing practices in the states that 
submit data, transitions between incarceration and community 
corrections, and recidivism. Providers of the data are personnel in the 
states' Departments of Corrections and Parole, and all data are 
submitted on a voluntary basis. The NCRP collects the following 
administrative data on each inmate in participating states' custody:


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 County of sentencing
 State inmate identification number
 Dates of: birth; prison admission; prison release; parole 
discharge; parole eligibility hearing; projected prison release; 
mandatory prison release
 First and last names
 Demographic information: sex; race; Hispanic origin; education 
level
 Offense type and number of counts per inmate for a maximum of 
three convicted offenses per inmate
 Prior time spent in prison and jail, and prior felony 
convictions
 Total sentence length imposed
 Additional offenses and sentence time imposed since prison 
admission
 Type of facility where inmate is serving sentence (for yearend 
custody census records only, the name of the facility is requested)
 Type of prison admission
 Type of prison release
 Whether inmate was AWOL/escape during incarceration
 Agency assuming custody of inmate released from prison (parole 
records only)
 Supervision status prior to discharge from parole and type of 
discharge

    In addition, BJS is requesting OMB clearance to add the following 
items to the NCRP collection, all of which are likely available from 
the same databases as existing data elements, and should therefore pose 
minimal additional burden to the respondents, while greatly enhancing 
BJS' ability to better characterize the corrections systems and 
populations it serves:

 Date and type of parole admission
 Location of parole discharge or parole office
 FBI identification number
 Prior military service, date and type of last discharge

    BJS uses the information gathered in NCRP in published reports and 
statistics. The reports will be made available to the U.S. Congress, 
Executive Office of the President, practitioners, researchers, 
students, the media, others interested in criminal justice statistics, 
and the general public via the BJS Web site.
    (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount 
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: BJS anticipates 
57 respondents to NCRP for report year 2012: 50 state respondents; the 
California Juvenile Justice Division; and six separate state parole 
boards. Each respondent currently submitting NCRP data will require an 
estimated 28 hours of time to supply the information for their annual 
caseload and an additional 3 hours documenting or explaining the data 
for a total of 1,200 hours. For the 15 states which have never 
submitted data or are returning to NCRP submission following a lapse of 
several years, the total first year's burden estimate is 933 hours, 
which includes the time required for developing or modifying computer 
programs to extract the data, performing and checking the extracted 
data, and submitting it electronically to BJS' data collection agency 
via SFTP. The total burden for all 57 NCRP data providers is 2,133 
hours for report year 2012. Starting with report year 2013, this burden 
will decrease to 1,326 hours since all states will have data extract 
programs created and need only make minor modifications to obtain 
report year 2013 data. All states submit data via a secure file 
transfer protocol (SFTP) electronic upload.
    (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated 
with the collection: There are an estimated 2,133 total burden hours 
associated with this collection for report year 2013.
    If additional information is required contact: Jerri Murray, 
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, 
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two 
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE., Washington, DC 20530.

Jerri Murray,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2012-14612 Filed 6-14-12; 8:45 am]
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