[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 23 (Monday, February 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1510-1511]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-00845]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1121-NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection
Comments Requested; New Collection: Annual Survey of Jails in Indian
Country
AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be submitting a request for a new
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until
April 5, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 (email: [email protected]; telephone: 202-305-9630).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 Bureau of Justice
Statistics, including whether the information will have practical
utility;
--Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
--Evaluate whether and if so how the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected can be enhanced; 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: New collection.
2. Title of the Form/Collection: Annual Survey of Jails in Indian
Country (SJIC).
3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: The form number is CJ-
5B: Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC). This form is sent to
approximately 84 confinement facilities, detention centers, and other
correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of
Indian Affairs (BIA). The applicable component within the Department of
Justice is the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in the Office of
Justice Programs.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) requests clearance to
conduct the Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) for a three-year
period and also requests a new unique clearance number for the SJIC
data collection. The SJIC is currently approved through 1/31/2019 under
OMB Control Number 1121-0094 along with the Annual Survey of Jails
(ASJ), and until recently, the jail portion of the Mortality in
Correctional Institutions (MCI-formerly the Deaths in Custody Reporting
Program). Considering these data collections are unique in substance,
collection period, and respondents, each collection has required
enhancements at different periods of time. Consequently, BJS has
revised the combined clearance multiple times over the past several
years, and in some cases, BJS delayed enhancing a unique survey until
all data collections could be addressed with a single revision. This
process does not allow BJS to address the critical needs of a single
collection in a timely manner. As a solution, BJS proposes to separate
these collections and obtained a unique OMB clearance for each. The
ASJ, when it is next fielded in 2020, will retain the OMB Control
Number 1121-0094. The MCI-Jails collection will be combined with the
MCI-Prison collection under OMB Control Number 1121-0249. The SJIC will
obtain a new OMB Control Number through this application.
4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: The affected public that will be asked to
respond to CJ-5B includes jail administrators from approximately 84
confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional
facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. The respondents 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 and a
misdemeanor; the inmates most serious offense (i.e., domestic violence
offense, aggravated or simple assault, rape, other violent, burglary,
larceny-theft, drug law violation, DWI/DUI of alcohol or drugs, public
intoxication, and other unspecified offenses);
(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 jail, and final discharges
from jail 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, the number
of deaths attributed to suicide, and the number of confined inmates
that attempted suicide;
(f) At midyear, the number of correctional staff employed by the
facility and their occupation (e.g., administration, jail operations,
educational staff, etc.);
(g) At midyear, the number of jail operations employees who had
received the basic detention officer certification and how many had
received 40 hours of in-service training; and
(h) At midyear, the total rated capacity of jail facilities.
This collection is the only national effort devoted to describing
and understanding annual changes in the tribal jail population. The
collection enables BJS, tribal correctional authorities and
administrators, legislators, researchers, and jail planners to track
growth in the number of jails and their capacities nationally, as well
as to track changes in the demographics and supervision status of the
tribal jail population and the prevalence of crowding.
5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of
time
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estimated for an average respondent to respond:
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Average
Reporting mode Purpose of contact Number of reporting time Total burden
responses (min) hours (hrs)
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Mail, Fax, Email, telephone........ Data collection............ 84 75 105
Email and telephone................ Verify facility operational 84 2 3
status and point-of-
contact.
Email and telephone................ Data quality follow-up 84 7 10
validation.
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Total.......................... ........................... 84 84 118
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The questionnaire will be sent to 84 Indian country correctional
facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA). Based on prior years' reporting, we estimate a reporting
time of 75 minutes for the SJIC questionnaire. If needed, jail
respondents will also be contacted by email or telephone to verify data
quality issues. Thus, we expect that in any data collection year 84
SJIC respondents will have an average reporting time of 2 minutes to
verify facility operational status and point-of-contact, 75 minutes for
the data collection, and an additional 7 minutes for data quality
follow-up validation, for a total burden 84 minutes per facility.
Annually, this results in a total burden estimate for SJIC of 118
hours.
If additional information is required, contact: Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice,
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 3E.405A, Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: January 30, 2019.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2019-00845 Filed 2-1-19; 8:45 am]
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