Prison/Jail Buffer of Prison Boundaries in 2018 in the 4 Corner States

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Title

Prison/Jail Buffer of Prison Boundaries in 2018 in the 4 Corner States

Subject

This map shows the 2018 incarceration prevalence along with a buffer zone around each prison/jail in the county.

Description

The map is intended to show which prisons/jails would be contributors to the incarceration prevalence in the respective county. There are approximately seven prisons/jails that contribute to the highest incarceration rates in the four corner states.

Creator

James Jorrelle Moore

Source

County Census Tract: Bureau, U. (2020, December 14). Tiger/line shapefiles. Retrieved March 29, 2021, from https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.2018.html

Hudson, K. (2020, August 07). Prison boundaries. Retrieved March 12, 2021, from https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/2d6109d4127d458eaf0958e4c5296b67_0?geometry=-141.689%2C-3.069%2C121.983%2C75.954

Incarceration Trends: Incarceration trends. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2021, from http://trends.vera.org/incarceration-rates?data=localjail

Publisher

Website maintained by Chantel Sloan, Associate Professor in the Public Health Department at Brigham Young University

Date

The map is dated 2018

Contributor

James Jorrelle Moore

Rights

I have permission to use Mergent Intellect Data

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Generated through ArcGIS Pro

Coverage

The map shows county population data with Prison and Jail total population. It also shows the regions around each Prison/Jail that would have contributed to the incarceration rates.

Files

Prison Buffer for the  4 Corner States.pdf

Reference

James Jorrelle Moore, Prison/Jail Buffer of Prison Boundaries in 2018 in the 4 Corner States, Website maintained by Chantel Sloan, Associate Professor in the Public Health Department at Brigham Young University, The map is dated 2018