OMB looks
forward to receiving a report in one year from BJS regarding its
progress in addressing differences in the collection of race and
ethnicity data across corrections collections, as discussed in the
"Q&A" document included herein. We understand that the rate of
progress is dependent on funding in FY 2010, but request a one year
report nonetheless.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
10/31/2012
36 Months From Approved
10/31/2009
51
0
42
2,254
0
2,298
0
0
0
The National Corrections Reporting
Program (NCRP) is the only national data collection furnishing
annual individual-level information for State prisoners admitted or
released during the year, those in custody at year-end, and persons
discharged from parole supervision. The NCRP collects data on
sentencing, time served in prison and on parole, offense,
admission/release type and demographic information. BJS, the
Congress, researchers and criminal justice practitioners use these
data to describe annual movements of adult offenders through State
correctional system. Providers of the data are personnel in State
Departments of
US Code:
42
USC 3711 Name of Law: Omnibus Crime Control & Safe Streets
Act of 1968
The previous estimate of
respondent burden (2,298 hours) was partly based on the expected
participation and receipt of manually-completed forms from 2 states
for report year 2006. Both states have been converted to ADP
respondents, leaving no manually reporting respondents for year
2009, and contributing to a net decrease in burden hours for report
year 2009. All responses for 2009 and beyond are expected to be ADP
submissions. The estimate of burden hours for report year 2009 was
also affected by the recognition that prison admission (NCRP-1A)
and prison release data (NCRP-1B) generally reside in the same
database, but parole release data (NCRP-1C) require running a
separate computer extraction program. Further, not every state that
provides NCRP-1A and NCRP-1B data has been providing data for
NCRP-1C. (Previous burden estimates have always included separate
burden hour estimates for yearend prison population data, NCRP-1D,
to reflect that these data reside in a separate database.) Accurate
accounting of the time required to provide prisoner admission and
release records, separate from parole release records, coupled with
the recognition that previous burden estimates included time for
writing computer programs to extract data, when in fact, current
respondents were writing programs once and re-running them in
subsequent years, further contributed to a net decrease in
estimated burden hours.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form NCRP-1A National Corrections Reporting Program
NCRPQuestions and Answers.docx
NCRP_2009_OMB_Supporting_Statement_7-22-09[1].doc
National Corrections Reporting Program