[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 85 (Thursday, May 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18865-18867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08926]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[OMB Number 1121-0100]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection 
eComments Requested; Reinstatement, With Change, of a Previously 
Approved Collection for Which Approval Has Expired: 2019 Census of 
Jails

AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice.

ACTION: 30-Day notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, 
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 was 
previously published in the Federal Register Volume 84, Number 32, 
pages 4539-4541, on February 15, 2019, allowing a 60-day comment 
period. Following publication of the 60-day notice, the Bureau of 
Justice Statistics received seven comments. Responses to these comments 
will be included in the final clearance package submitted to OMB.

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 30 days until 
June 3, 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

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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: Reinstatement, with change, of a 
previously approved collection for which approval has expired.
    2. Title of the Form/Collection: 2019 Census of Jails (COJ).
    3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: The form numbers are 
CJ-3: 2019 Census of Jails (COJ)--Single-Facility Jail Form; CJ-3A: 
2019 Census of Jails (COJ)--Jurisdiction Form; and the CJ-3A Addendum: 
2019 Census of Jails (COJ)--Facility Form. The COJ will collect data 
from approximately 2,947 reporting units (RU), representing 3,169 local 
jail facilities (city, county, regional, and private) and 12 federal 
detention centers. The combined jail/prison systems in Alaska, 
Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont, are surveyed 
in BJS's Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities (OMB 
Control Number 1121-0147), and are not in the universe for the COJ. 
However, Alaska has 15 jails that are locally operated so these 
facilities are included in the COJ universe.
    The jail RUs are central reporters with jurisdictional authority 
over one or more jails. BJS will contact these central reporters and 
request that they report data on each local and federal facilities 
(3,181) under their jurisdictional authority based on the following 
criteria:
     2,652 RUs cover only one facility and will receive form 
CJ-3, which includes all 26 questions;
     295 RUs cover multiple facilities will each receive one 
CJ-3A to report combined data for all of their facilities on 15 of the 
26 questions; and
     The same 295 RUs that cover multiple facilities will 
receive a CJ-3A ADDENDUM form to be filled out for each facility (529 
in total) under their jurisdictional authority. This questionnaire will 
include the remaining 11 of the 26 questions in CJ-3, most of which are 
needed for the sampling facilities for several BJS inmate surveys.
    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 2019 Census of Jails (COJ) under OMB Control Number 1121-
0100. The last COJ was fielded in 2014 and collected 2013 year-end 
data. It was approved under OMB Control Number 1121-0249 along with the 
Mortality in Correctional Institutions--Jails (MCI, formerly the Deaths 
in Custody Reporting Program) because of a timely need for the data. 
Unlike in 2013, when an abbreviated form of the COJ was conducted along 
with MCI--Jails data collection, the 2019 COJ will be a standalone 
collection. BJS requests clearance for the 2019 COJ under its previous 
unique OMB Control Number 1121-0100.
    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 the COJ includes jail administrators from approximately 
2,947 reporting units (RU), representing 3,169 local jails (city, 
county, regional, and private), and 12 Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) 
detention facilities that function as jails. The respondents will be 
asked to provide information for the following categories:
    (a) The purposes for which the facility hold offenders (e.g., 
detention facility with authority to hold persons facing criminal 
charges beyond 72 hours, correctional facility for persons convicted of 
offenses with sentences usually beyond 72 hours, etc.);
    (b) As a matter of practice, does the facility hold males or 
females only;
    (c) The functions of the facility (e.g., general adult population 
confinement, medical treatment/hospitalization confinement, drug 
treatment confinement, boot camp, etc.);
    (d) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), the total rated 
and design capacity of the jail;
    (e) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), was the 
facility under a federal, state or local court order or consent decree 
to limit the number of inmates housed; maximum number of inmates the 
facility is allowed to house; and the year the order or decree take 
effect;
    (f) At midyear, was the facility under a court order or consent 
decree for specific conditions of confinement (e.g., crowing, staffing, 
food, medical facilities or services; grievance procedures or policies 
religious practices, etc.);
    (g) 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; inmate race/
Hispanic origin; probation and parole violators; convicted and 
unconvicted status; persons held for felonies and misdemeanors; inmate 
U.S. citizenship status by conviction status; and inmates held for 
federal authorities, state prison authorities, American Indian or 
Alaska Native tribal governments, and other local jails;
    (h) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), the number of 
persons under the supervision of the jail jurisdiction, but not 
confined;
    (i) On the weekend prior to midyear (last weekday in the month of 
June), did the jail have a weekend program that allow offenders to 
serve their sentences of confinement only on weekends; and the number 
who participated;
    (j) The date and count for the greatest number of confined inmates 
during the 30-day period in June;
    (k) The average daily population during the 365-day period between 
July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019;
    (l) The number of new admissions into jail, and final discharges 
from jail, between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019;
    (m) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), the number of 
correctional staff employed by the facility and their occupations, 
broken out by male or female staff (i.e., correctional officers and all 
other staff);
    (n) Yes or no to facility practices on inmate opioid testing, 
screening and treatment that are conducted either on or off facility 
grounds;
    (o) Based on the number of new admissions into jail during the 30-
day period from June 1 to June 30, 2019, how many were screened with a 
questionnaire or interview for opioid use disorder; how many screened 
positive for opioid use disorder; how many of those who screened 
positive were unique individuals;
    (p) Based on the number of new admissions into jail during the 30-
day period from June 1 to June 30, 2019, how many did the facility 
treat for opioid withdrawal; how many treated for opioid withdraw were 
unique individuals; and

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    (q) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), how many 
persons confined in the facility were receiving medication-assisted 
treatment for opioid disorders.
    This collection is the only national effort devoted to enumerating 
all local jails and BOP detention facilities in the United States and 
the population they supervise at the facility level. The collection 
enables BJS, jail administrators, legislators, researchers, and jail 
planners to track growth in the number of jails and their capacities, 
as well as to track changes in the demographics and supervision status 
of the jail population and the prevalence of crowding.
    5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of 
time estimated for an average respondent to respond:

                                       Reporting Mode and Estimated Burden
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                                                  Number of data                      Average        Estimated
    Primary reporting mode         Purpose of        providers       Number of    reporting time   total burden
                                     contact           (RUs)         responses         (min)           hours
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Web...........................  Data collection:
                                   Form CJ-3....           2,652           2,652             150           6,631
                                   Form CJ-3A...             295             295             130             639
                                   Form CJ-3A                295             529              20             176
                                    ADDENDUM.
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                                     Subtotal              2,947           3,476             150           7,446
                                      for 3
                                      forms.
Email and telephone...........  Data quality               1,620           1,749              10             291
                                 follow-up
                                 validation.
Email and telephone...........  Verify facility              300             300               5              25
                                 operational
                                 status and
                                 point-of-
                                 contact.
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        Total.................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           7,762
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    The questionnaires will be sent to approximately 2,947 reporting 
units (RU), representing 3,169 local jail facilities and 12 Federal 
Bureau of Prisons (BOP) detention centers that function as jails. BJS 
will contact these central reporters and request that they report data 
for all facilities (3,181) under their jurisdictional authority. Based 
on prior years' reporting and the cognitive test of the new items 
conducted in August-December 2018, BJS estimates a reporting time of 
150 minutes for CJ-3, 130 minutes for CJ-3A, and 20 minutes for the CJ-
3A ADDENDUM. If needed, jail respondents will be contacted by email or 
telephone to verify data quality issues. BJS estimates that data 
quality follow-up validation will run an average of 10 minutes across 
1,620 RUs. Some RUs may receive follow-up validation for multiple 
facilities (resulting in a total of 1,749 facilities from the original 
1,620 RUs) under their jurisdictional authority. In addition, we 
estimate that 300 RUs will be contacted during the jail frame update 
stage to verify facility operational status and point-of-contact, which 
takes 5 minutes each on average.
    In total, the 2019 COJ will incur a burden estimate of 7,762 hours 
or about 2 hours and 30 minutes per RU for data collection and 10 
minutes or less for select RUs contacted for data quality follow-up 
validation or facility operational status and point-of-contact 
validation.
    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: April 29, 2019.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2019-08926 Filed 5-1-19; 8:45 a.m.]
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