Document Type
Data
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
Notes for 2021 Data Updates Accompanying
Andrea Fenster & Margo Schlanger, Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 Years of Evidence for Repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Prison Policy Initiative (April 26, 2021)
By Margo Schlanger & German Marquez Alcala
Version 2 (April 28, 2021)
For supplemental files labelled as DO, download and save as a .do file
Recommended Citation
Schlanger, Margo and Marquez Alcala, German, "Notes for 2021 Data Updates Accompanying Andrea Fenster & Margo Schlanger, Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 Years of Evidence for Repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Prison Policy Initiative" (2021). Other Publications. 292.
https://repository.law.umich.edu/other/292
Part 1a: Reformatting Federal Judicial Center (FJC) Integrated Database (IDB) of Civil Cases Filed and/or Terminated in Federal District Court, Statistical Year 1970 through Fiscal Year 2021 - DO file
01a Appending and Reformatting FJC IDB.txt (77 kB)
01b Adding County Labels to FJC IDB.do.txt (69 kB)
Part 1b: Adding County Name Labels to the Reformatted Federal Judicial Center (FJC) Integrated Database (IDB) of Civil Cases Filed and/or Terminated in Federal District Court, Statistical Year 1970 through Fiscal Year 2021 - DO file
01b Adding County Labels to FJC IDB.txt (69 kB)
02 Preparing Data for Analysis.do.txt (71 kB)
Part 2: Updating Prison/Jail Population and Civil Rights Filings Dataset - DO file
02 Preparing Data for Analysis.txt (71 kB)
03 Creating Updated Tables.do.txt (28 kB)
Part 3: Creating Updated Tables - DO file
03 Creating Updated Tables.txt (28 kB)
04 Appending and Reformatting Jail and Prison Census Data.do.txt (33 kB)
Part 4: Appending, Reformatting, and Keeping Only Select Facility ID, Population, and Court Order Variables from Multiple Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Jail and Prison Census Data Files for 1983-2006 - DO files
04 Appending and Reformatting Jail and Prison Census Data.txt (33 kB)
04a Data Conversion 1993 Jail Census.do.txt (107 kB)
Part 4a: Importing and Reformatting Fixed Text Data from 1993 National Jail Census - DO file
04a Data Conversion 1993 Jail Census.txt (107 kB)
04ai_Data_Dictionary_COJ_1993.dct.txt (36 kB)
Data Dictionary using 06648-0001-Data.txt - DO file
04ai_Data_Dictionary_COJ_1993.txt (36 kB)
04b Data Conversion 1990 Prison Census.do.txt (28 kB)
Part 4b: Importing and Reformatting Fixed Text Data from 1990 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities - DO file
04b Data Conversion 1990 Prison Census.txt (28 kB)
04bi_Data_Dictionary_CSFACF_1990.dct.txt (23 kB)
Data Dictionary using 09908-0001-Data.txt - DO file
04bi_Data_Dictionary_CSFACF_1990.txt (23 kB)
04c Data Conversion 1995 Prison Census.do.txt (12 kB)
Part 4c: Importing and Reformatting Fixed Text Data from 1990 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities - DO file
04c Data Conversion 1995 Prison Census.txt (12 kB)
04ci_Data_Dictionary_CSFACF_1995.dct.txt (7 kB)
Data Dictionary using 06953-0001-Data.txt - DO file
04ci_Data_Dictionary_CSFACF_1995.txt (7 kB)
05 Creating Court Order Incidence Table.do.txt (2 kB)
Part 5: Creating Table F: Incidence of Court Orders, Local Jails and State Prisons, 1983-2006 - DO file
05 Creating Court Order Incidence Table.txt (2 kB)
Figure_A_Incar_Pop_and_Civil_Rights_Filing_Rate_1970-2018.emf (620 kB)
jail_prison_census_court_orders_1983-2006.dta (28804 kB)
Population and Filings 1970 to 2020 by state.xlsx (337 kB)
population_and_filings_1970-2020.dta (266 kB)
TableAIncarceratedPopulationandPrisonJailCivilRightsFilings.xlsx (13 kB)
TableBProSeLitigationinUSDistrictCourtsbyCaseType.xlsx (11 kB)
TableCOutcomesinPrisonerCivilRightsCasesFY19882020.xlsx (12 kB)
TableDOutcomesinFedDistCourtCasesbyCaseTypeFY2020.xlsx (9 kB)
TableF-IncidenceofCourtOrdersinJailsandPrisons.xlsx (7 kB)
TableG-ChangeinPrisonerFilingsbyState1995vs2018.xlsx (14 kB)
TableH-DaystoDispositionbyFYofFiling1988-2020.xlsx (11 kB)
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Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Litigation Commons
Comments
This entry is for underlying data, excel versions, and replication code for tables included in Fenster, Andrea and Margo Schlanger. "Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 years of evidence for repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act." Prison Policy Initiative (2021) found at https://repository.law.umich.edu/other/173/
This 2021 data update is superceded by the 2022 data update (https://repository.law.umich.edu/other/290) and files related to the 2022 BJS Court Orders (https://repository.law.umich.edu/other/291/) included in this repository.