Memo for Nonsubstantive Change - Changing Name of Collection

U.S. Department of Justice

Office of Justice Programs

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Washington, D.C. 20531

MEMORANDUM TO: Robert Sivinski

Office of Management and Budget

THROUGH: Jeri M. Mulrow, Acting Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Gerard F. Ramker, Deputy Director

Elizabeth Ann Carson, Acting Corrections Unit Chief

FROM: Mary Cowhig

Statistician

SUBJECT: Nonsubstantive change request to the name of Deaths in Custody Reporting Program – state prison collection: OMB Control No: 1121-0249

DATE: December 7, 2017

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is requesting a nonsubstantive change to the name of Deaths in Custody Reporting Program – state prison collection, OMB Control No: 1121-0249 (expiration 03/31/2019). The request is to change the name of the data collection to “Mortality in Correctional Institutions (State Prisons).” The new name better describes the data BJS collects, and allows for respondents to more easily distinguish it from BJS’s arrest-related deaths collection.

We will change the name on the following forms:

NPS-4A, State Prison Inmate Death Report

NPS-4, Annual Summary of Inmate Deaths in State Prisons

There is no change to the burden estimates associated with this collection at this time.