National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC)

No material/nonsubstantive change - BJS is proposing adding a column to the Private/Contract facility roster form to collect whether the youth was placed by the state as a “yes” or “no” variable. On September 4, 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA or the Act) was signed by the President (Public Law 108-79; see Attachment 1). The Act requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to "carry out, for each calendar year, a comprehensive statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape." The Act further instructs BJS to collect survey data: "…the Bureau shall…use surveys and other statistical studies of current and former inmates…" The law was passed in part to overcome a shortage of available research on the incidence and prevalence of sexual violence within correctional facilities. The National Survey of Youth in Custody is the only national source of information on the number of sexual assault victims within juvenile correctional facilities. This part of the collection fulfills the legislative requirement to obtain data directly from youth in order to generate a facility level estimate of sexual assault.

The latest form for National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC) expires 2020-10-31 and can be found here.