Criminal Justice: Corrections

Links to publications on the work of the department, an agency of the U.S. Justice Department.

The Bureau, a part of the US Department of Justice, collects, analyzes, and publishes information on crime and the justice system.

A U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics tool to allows you to use data from the Annual Parole Survey.

A U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics analytical tool that allows you to use data from the Annual Probation Survey.

Links to government data sets. This category includes criminal justice and corrections, in addition to traffic safety, industrial safety, natural disasters, etc.

Data on campus safety and security from the U.S. Department of Education.

Includes statistics of DEA arrests, drug seizures and meth lab incidents, plus links to related resources.

Links to Bureau of Prisons data, plus links to related resources.

Statistics on juvenile justice, from another agency of the U.S. Justice Department.

Data about the work of the U.S. Marshals Service

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports include a number of reports, such as: Crime in the United States, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, Hate Crime Statistics, and the National Incident-Based Reporting System.

This web page provides lists of resources related to local, state, and federal statistics displayed to help you see the current state of the corrections industry as of the last set of reported data. We do our best to find as much information as we can about each state, however, because reporting standards are not currently uniform across the nation, there may be gaps in the data you see presented.

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is a federal agency that provides training, technical assistance, and information services to corrections agencies nationwide, including South Carolina's Department of Corrections.

We protect public safety by ensuring that federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and provide reentry programming to ensure their successful return to the community.