Daily Inmates in Custody: Demographics and Charges

Daily Inmates In Custody provides a daily snapshot of individuals held in custody, excluding sealed cases. The dataset includes attributes such as custody level, mental health designation, race, gender, age, legal status, security risk group membership, top charge, and infraction flag. Resulting summaries may differ slightly from other published statistics.

Use Cases

• Analyzing demographic composition of the inmate population using RACE, GENDER, AGE
• Tracking custody levels and security risk group membership using CUSTODY_LEVEL, SRG_FLG
• Examining admission and discharge patterns using ADMITTED_DT, DISCHARGED_DT
• Studying the prevalence of infractions and top charges using INFRACTION, TOP_CHARGE
• Monitoring mental health designations and legal status using BRADH, INMATE_STATUS_CODE

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov suggests official importance and reliability
• Contains a detailed set of 13 columns covering demographics, charges, custody status, and mental health
• Updated daily, with the most recent update recorded on 2026-04-11

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, size, license, and author are missing from all sources
• The dataset explicitly excludes sealed cases, limiting completeness for certain analyses
• The description warns that resulting summaries may differ from other published statistics

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Likely an administrative daily snapshot from custody management systems.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-11 19:19:00 (Socrata)

Geography

New York City (inferred from organization domain)