Data

These databases give you access to crime records, incarceration statistics and more so you can ground your reporting in numbers.

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Behind Bars Data Project

The Behind Bars Data Project from UCLA School of Law provides national data on deaths in U.S. prisons and other carceral facilities.

Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges

The Federal Judicial Center maintains a biographical directory of every judge and justice who has served on Article III federal courts, current and past.

CourtListener and RECAP

CourtListener is a free, searchable database of millions of court opinions plus a growing archive of oral arguments and judicial financial disclosures.

COVID Behind Bars Data Project

This project tracks COVID-19 cases, deaths, tests and vaccinations across more than 1,700 state, federal, county and immigration detention facilities.

Datasets for Justice Innovation

The Stanford Legal Design Lab made this page of data sets available for those “working on justice and poverty innovation.”

Death Row Execution Database

This page contains information about death row executions from 1977 to the present (it's updated on business days by 12 p.m. EST).

Federal Inmate Locator

The Bureau of Prisons' inmate locator lets users search for people incarcerated in the federal prison system from 1982 to the present, by name or register number.

Google Scholar Case Law Search

Google Scholar's case law search offers a free, searchable database of federal court decisions along with state appellate and state supreme court opinions.

Improving Youth Justice

The Improving Youth Justice database covers a decade of data regarding facility standards and impacts on the juveniles, families and staff.

Incarceration Detailed Data Tool

The Detailed Data Tool from The Sentencing Project provides a federal and state-level look at data related to incarcerated people and prison populations.

Incarceration Transparency

The Incarceration Transparency Database provides data on deaths in prisons and jails for Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Incarceration Trends

Vera's Incarceration Trends tool combines Bureau of Justice Statistics jail and prison data with Vera's own research to provide county- and state-level incarceration statistics dating to 1970.