Federal Justice Statistics Program Files

There is one record for each defendant in each case terminated and it includes information on court proceedings, date the case was filed, date the case was terminated, the most serious charge, and reason for termination. The Docket and Reporting System files include information on suspects in investigative matters with one of the following outcomes: (1) the U.S. Attorney declined to prosecute, (2) the case was filed in Federal District Court, or (3) the matter was disposed of by a U.S. magistrate.

The Pretrial Services files identify the circuit, district, and office where the defendant was charged, type of action, year of birth and sex of the defendant, major offense charge, and results of initial and detention hearings. The Parole Decisions file contains information from various parole hearings such as court date, appeal action, reopening decision, sentence, severity of sentence, offense, and race and ethnicity of the defendant.

The Offenders Under Supervision files have data about convicted offenders sentenced to probation supervision and federal prisoners released to parole supervision. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.