[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4707-4708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01215]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[OMB Number 1121-0094]


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

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 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.

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until 
March 27, 2020.

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 Zhen Zeng, 
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street NW, Washington, DC 
20531 (email: [email protected]; telephone: 202-305-2711).

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: Reinstatement, with change, of a 
previously approved collection for which approval has expired.
    2. Title of the Form/Collection: Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ).
    3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: The ASJ contains one 
form--CJ-5: 2020 Annual Survey of Jails. The applicable component 
within the Department of Justice is the Bureau of Justice Statistics 
(BJS), in the Office of Justice Programs.
    4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as 
well as a brief abstract: Approximately 950 jails, representing 
approximately 2,920 local jails (city, county, regional, and private), 
will be requested to provide information for the following categories:
    (a) At midyear (last weekday in the month of June), the total 
number of inmates confined in jail facilities and the total number of 
persons under jail supervision, but not confined;
    (b) At midyear, inmate counts by sex, juvenile status, race/
Hispanic origin, probation and parole status, conviction status, 
severity of charge (felony or misdemeanor), and U.S. citizenship 
status;
    (c) At midyear, the numbers of inmates held for federal 
authorities, state prison authorities, American Indian or Alaska Native 
tribal governments, and other local jails;
    (d) On the weekend prior to midyear, whether the jail had a weekend 
program that allows offenders to serve their sentences of confinement 
only on weekends, and the number of program participants;
    (e) Rated capacity at midyear;
    (f) The date and count for the greatest number of confined inmates 
during the 30-day period in June;
    (g) The average daily population by sex during the 12-month period 
from July 1 of last year to June 30 of current year;
    (h) The number of new admissions into jail, and final discharges 
from jail, by sex during the 12-month period from July 1 of last year 
to June 30 of current year;
    (i) At midyear, the number of staff members employed by the 
facility by sex and occupation (i.e., correctional officers or other 
staff).
    The ASJ is the only national collection that tracks annual changes 
in the local jail population in the United States. The ASJ is fielded 
every year except in the years when BJS conducts the Census of Jails 
(OMB Control No. 1121-0100). BJS requests clearance for the 2020-22 ASJ 
under OMB Control No. 1121-0094. The ASJ was last approved under OMB 
Control No. 1121-0094 (exp. date 01/31/2019), where it was bundled with 
the Mortality in Correctional Institutions-Jails (MCI, formerly the 
Deaths in Custody Reporting Program, OMB Control No. 1121-0249) and 
Survey of Jails in Indian Country (OMB Control No. 1121-0329). In 2017, 
the ASJ was separated from the MCI-Jails and became a stand-alone 
collection again.
    5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of 
time estimated for an average respondent to respond: During data 
collection in 2020, 950 respondents will each take an average of 75 
minutes to complete the CJ-5 form (see table 1). Data quality follow-up 
is needed for an estimated 70% of the respondents (665) and the 
validation will run an average of 10 minutes for each respondent. In 
addition, about 60 jails will be contacted to verify facility 
operational status and point-of-contact information, which takes 5 
minutes each on average. These estimates are based on previous 
estimates of item burden and input received from participants in the 
2018 jail collection cognitive test (generic OMB clearance, Control No. 
1121-0249). Data collection in 2021 and 2022 will involve the same 
number of respondents and require the same level of burden. In total, 
there is an estimated 3,912 total burden hours associated with this 
collection for the three years of data collection, or approximately 
1,304 hours for each year.

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                                                      Table 1--Reporting Mode and Estimated Burden
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                                                                                             Number of
                                                                                               data          Number of        Average        Estimated
             Primary reporting mode                         Purpose of contact               providers       responses       reporting     total burden
                                                                                               (RUs)                        time  (min)    hours  (hrs)
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Web............................................  Data collection........................             950             950              75           1,188
Email and telephone............................  Data quality follow-up validation......             665             665              10             111
Email and telephone............................  Verify facility operational status and               60              60               5               5
                                                  point-of-contact.
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    Total......................................  .......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,304
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    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 21, 2020.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2020-01215 Filed 1-24-20; 8:45 a.m.]
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