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California Department of Corrections Data

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jacob Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania

Version:  View help for Version V1

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california_county_prison_admissions_1993_2010.csv text/csv 58.8 KB 02/24/2019 06:29:AM
california_county_prison_admissions_1993_2010.dta application/x-stata 100.5 KB 02/24/2019 06:29:AM
california_county_prison_admissions_1993_2010.rda application/x-rlang-transport 15.1 KB 02/24/2019 06:42:AM
california_county_prison_admissions_codebook_1993_2010.pdf application/pdf 56.1 KB 02/24/2019 06:28:AM

Project Citation: 

Kaplan, Jacob. California Department of Corrections Data . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-02-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E108602V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
This data is from the California Prisoners and Parolees reports 1993-2010 which include summary statistics about inmates in the California prison system. While these reports include various data, the only data available here is the number of people admitted to prison from each county for each year. This number is subdivided by those with a new felony and parole violators with a new term.

I added Census county and state FIPS codes for easier merging with other data.

The following variables are available in this data.
  • County
  • Year
  • State-County FIPS
  • State FIPS
  • County FIPS
  • Total number of people admitted to prison
  • Total admission percent (% that county contributed to total admissions)
  • Total admissions rate per 100k people in that county
  • Number of felons with new admissions
  • Felons with new admissions percent (% that county contributed to total admissions)
  • Number of parole violators returned with a new term
  • Parole violators returned with a new term percent (% that county contributed to total admissions)

The code used to scrape, clean, and test this data is available here: https://github.com/jacobkap/california_prisons

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms prison; prisoners; prison inmates; california; Realignment
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage California

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source
California Prisoners and Parolees Reports
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation County in California
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit County in California

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V2 [2021-01-16]

V1 [2019-02-24]

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