Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection Comments Requested; New Collection: Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 1510-1511 [2019-00845]

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• Department of Justice

[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: Todd.Minton@usdoj.gov; 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 
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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.
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