[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 140 (Thursday, July 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34885-34887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13933]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1121-0102]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; Extension, With Changes, of a Currently Approved:
Title--National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS)
AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Department of Justice
(DOJ) 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
September 22, 2025.
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 Derek Mueller, Statistician, Bureau of
Justice Statistics, 999 N Capitol St. NE, 8th Floor, Washington, DC
20531 (email: [email protected]; telephone: 202-307-0765).
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 using appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Abstract: Through the National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS),
the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects annual aggregate counts
of prisoners in the custody and under the jurisdiction of state and
federal correctional authorities, as well as the number of persons
admitted or released. BJS uses the NPS to report each year on the
changes to and movement through state and federal prison systems by
sentenced individuals. These statistics contribute fundamentally to
BJS's mission of describing the movements of persons through the
criminal justice system. Revisions to the collection include removing
the HIV/AIDS module from the survey in part due to minimal year over
year change in counts. These items may be included with other health-
related questions in periodic supplements as part of the NPS program.
Additionally, BJS plans to cognitively test a new format for collecting
race and ethnicity data in alignment with the revised 2024 OMB
Statistical Policy Directive No. 15. Additionally, BJS will assess the
availability of more detailed race and ethnicity information within the
respondents' data systems.
Overview of This Information Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection: Extension, With Changes, of a
Current Approved Collection.
(2) The Title of the Form/Collection: National Prisoner Statistics
program.
(3) The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of
the Department sponsoring the collection: Form numbers for the
questionnaire are NPS-1B (Summary of Sentenced Population Movement) and
NPS-1B(T) (Prisoner Population Report--U.S. Territories). The
applicable component within the Department of Justice is the Bureau of
Justice Statistics, in the Office of Justice Programs.
(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: For the NPS-1B form, 51 central reporters
(one from each state and the Federal Bureau of Prisons)
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responsible for keeping records on inmates will be asked to provide
information for the following categories:
(a) As of December 31, the number of incarcerated males and females
within their custody and under their jurisdiction with maximum
sentences of more than one year, one year or less, and unsentenced;
(b) The number of incarcerated individuals housed in privately
operated facilities, county or other local authority correctional
facilities, or in other state or Federal facilities on December 31;
(c) Prison admission information in the calendar year for the
following categories: new court commitments, parole violators, other
conditional release violators returned, transfers from other
jurisdictions, AWOLs and escapees returned, and returns from appeal and
bond;
(d) Prison release information in the calendar year for the
following categories: expirations of sentence, commutations, other
conditional releases, probations, supervised mandatory releases,
paroles, other conditional releases, deaths by cause, AWOLs, escapes,
transfers to other jurisdictions, and releases to appeal or bond;
(e) Number of incarcerated individuals under jurisdiction on
December 31 by race and Hispanic origin;
(f) Number of incarcerated individuals under physical custody on
December 31 classified as non-citizens, U.S. citizens, and unsentenced;
(g) Number of incarcerated individuals under physical custody on
December 31 who are citizens of the U.S. with maximum sentences of more
than one year, one year or less, and unsentenced;
(h) The source of U.S. citizenship data; and
(i) The aggregated rated, operational, and/or design capacities, by
sex, of the state/BOP's correctional facilities at year-end.
For the NPS-1B(T) form, five central reporters from the U.S.
Territories and Commonwealths of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern
Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa will be asked
to provide information for the following categories for the calendar
year just ended, and, if available, for the previous calendar year:
(a) As of December 31, the number of incarcerated males and females
within their custody and under their jurisdiction with maximum
sentences of more than one year, one year or less and unsentenced; and
an assessment of the completeness of these counts (complete, partial,
or estimated);
(b) The number of incarcerated individuals under jurisdiction on
December 31 but in the custody of facilities operated by other
jurisdictions' authorities solely to reduce prison overcrowding;
(c) Number of incarcerated individuals under jurisdiction on
December 31 by race and Hispanic origin;
(d) The aggregated rated, operational, and/or design capacities, by
sex, of the territory's/Commonwealth's correctional facilities at year-
end.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics uses this information in published
reports and for the U.S. Congress, Executive Office of the President,
practitioners, researchers, students, the media, and others interested
in criminal justice statistics.
(5) Obligation to Respond: The obligation to respond is voluntary.
(6) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: Data collection
conducted in 2026, 2027, and 2028 (collecting prison data from 2025,
2026, and 2027, respectively) will require each respondent to spend an
average of 4.5 total hours to respond to the NPS-1B form. 5
respondents, each taking an average of 2 hours to respond to the NPS-
1B(T) form. The burden estimates are based on feedback from
respondents, and the burden is reduced from the previous clearance due
to the removal of the HIV/AIDS module.
(7) Estimated Time per Respondent: NPS-1B will take an average of
300 minutes (5 hours) or NPS 1B-T will take an average of 60 minutes (1
hour) to complete.
(8) Frequency: Each respondent will complete the NPS-1B or NPS 1B-T
once.
(9) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: There is an estimated 795 total burden hours
associated with this collection for the three years of data collection,
or approximately 265 hours for each year.
(10) Total Estimate Annual Other Costs Burden: $577,000.
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Total Monetized
Number of Time per annual Hourly value of
Jurisdiction & form Activity respondents Freq. response burden rate * respondent
(minutes) (hours) time
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State departments of corrections and the Assemble and report data.......... 51 1 270 229.5 $38.50 $8,835.75
Federal Bureau of Prisons (NPS-1B). Non-response follow-up contact, 51 1 20 17 38.50 654.50
clarification questions (if
needed).
Review and approve final data 51 1 10 8.5 38.50 327.50
tabulations.
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U.S. Territories and Commonwealths (NPS-1B(T)). Assemble and report data.......... 5 1 100 8.3 38.50 319.55
Non-response follow-up contact, 5 1 15 1.3 38.50 50.05
clarification questions (if
needed).
Review and approve final data 5 1 5 0.4 38.50 15.40
tabulations.
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Total.......................................... .................................. 56 ....... ........... 265 ........ 10,202.75
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If additional information is required contact: Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice,
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218, Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: July 22, 2025.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2025-13933 Filed 7-23-25; 8:45 am]
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