Inmates in State Correctional Facilities, 1900-1930

This dataset was constructed to examine the individual determinants of incarceration during the first three decades of the 20th century. Individual-level data from the 1900 to 1930 U.S. population censuses were collected for all inmates in state correctional facilities for adult males in a sample of eight states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, and California. These data were formatted and coded to be consistent with the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series random samples of the population censuses. Variables include age, race, sex, birthplace, parental birthplaces, year of immigration (if foreign born), literacy, and prison facility location.Please cite this data as: Moehling, Carolyn M. and Anne Morrison Piehl. Inmates in State Correctional Facilities, 1900-1930 [Data file]. Available from RUresearch at [http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3TH8JPB]