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| | Bureau of Justice Statistics Federal Justice Statistics |
 | | During 2003 the Federal Bureau of Prisons received 53,562 inmates from U.S. district courts; an additional 19,113 inmates were received from other sources such as supervision violations; 63,732 inmates were released. |
 | | Information is acquired on all aspects of processing in the Federal justice system, including the number of persons investigated, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, sentenced to probation, released pretrial, and under parole or other supervision; initial prosecution decisions, referrals to magistrates, court dispositions, sentencing outcomes, sentence length, and time served. |
 | | Describes juvenile offenders processed in the Federal criminal justice system, including the number of juveniles charged with acts of delinquency, the offenses for which they were charged, the proportion adjudicated delinquent, and the sanctions imposed. |
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