Trends in Prisoner Litigation: Appendix Data and Replication Code

Appendix files, data, and replication code for the research "Trends in Prisoner Litigation." The materials were authored by Margo Schlanger and last updated on July 2, 2026. The description indicates it includes litigation data sources and prison and jail population and court order data sources.

Use Cases

• Replicate statistical analyses from the associated research paper based on the provided replication code.
• Analyze trends in prisoner litigation based on the described litigation data sources.
• Study correlations between prison/jail populations and court orders based on the described population and court order data sources.

Strengths

• Includes replication code, which supports research transparency and reproducibility.
• Last updated on July 2, 2026, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and file formats are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Margo Schlanger Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely compiled from litigation data sources and prison/jail population and court order data sources for research purposes.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-02 16:01:03