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Federal Bureau of Prisons API

Bureau of Prisons API

I started to create a scraper for statistics section of BOP's website, but then after some exploration I managed to dig up some of the bop.gov's API endpoints.

Quick Facts Enpoint:

https://www.bop.gov/PublicInfo/execute/quickfacts?todo=query&output=json

The JSON response contains all of the following stats:

Statistics for people in federal prisons

• Age
• Citizenship
• Ethnicity (Hispanic and Non-Hispanic)
• "Gender"
• Offenses
• Prison Security Levels
• Race
• Restricted Housing
• Sentences Imposed

Population Statistics

• Number of people in BOP Custody
• Number of people in privagely managed facilities
• Number of people in other kinds of facilities

Staff Statistics

• Staff Ethnicity/Race
• Staff "Gender"

Location Endpoint:

https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/data/locations.json

Information about FOB Facilities

• Name
• Address
• Location Types (Institution, Regional Office, Residential Reentry Mangement)
• Gender
• Private Facility (T/F)
• Security Level

Residential Reentry Facility (Halfway House) Endpoint:

https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/data/additional.json

Information for individual RRC facilities

• Name
• Address
• Bed Count (w/ male and female breakdown)

Corona Virus Endpoint:

https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/json/final.json

Reported Corona Virus Stats by Facility:

• City
• Inmate Deaths
• Inmate Recoveries
• Inmates Testing Positive
• Staff Testing Positive
• Staff Recoveries
• Staff Death Amount