US Prisons, Jails, and Detention Centers with EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS) IDs

This dataset integrates data from multiple publicly available sources to enhance the social and environmental analytical potential of the 2017 and 2020 HIFLD prison boundaries datasets. The HIFLD prison boundary feature class contains secure detention facilities. These facilities range in jurisdiction from federal (excluding military) to local governments. Polygon geometry is used to describe the extent of where the incarcerated population is located (fence lines or building footprints). This feature class’s attribution describes many physical and social characteristics of detention facilities in the United States and some of its territories. The attribution for this feature class was populated by open source search methodologies of authoritative sources. We have manually coded the corresponding EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS) ID number to every facility for which we could find a reasonable match (source: https://www.epa.gov/frs/frs-facilities-state-single-file-csv-download). This FRS ID number enables finding corresponding environmental permits, inspections, violations, and enforcement actions. We have additionally created additional socially significant categories: ICE facilities, private prisons. Purpose: This feature class contains secure detention facilities with EPA FRS ID and additional socially relevant variables for research on the environmental injustices of mass incarceration by Carceral Ecologies.

本数据集融合了多个公开可用来源的数据，旨在提升2017年和2020年HIFLD监狱边界数据集在社会和环境分析方面的潜力。HIFLD监狱边界要素类包含安全拘留设施，这些设施在管辖权上从联邦（不包括军事）到地方政府不等。多边形几何形状被用于描述被监禁人口所在的范围（栅栏线或建筑轮廓）。本要素类的属性描述了美国及其部分领地的拘留设施在物理和社会特征方面的众多信息。该要素类的属性由权威来源的开放源搜索方法填充。我们对能够找到合理匹配的每个设施手动编码了相应的美国环保署设施注册服务（FRS）ID号码（来源：https://www.epa.gov/frs/frs-facilities-state-single-file-csv-download）。该FRS ID号码能够查找相应的环境许可、检查、违规行为和执法行动。此外，我们还创建了额外的具有社会意义的类别：ICE设施、私营监狱。目的：本要素类包含带有EPA FRS ID和额外具有社会相关变量的安全拘留设施，以供Carceral Ecologies研究大规模监禁的环境不公问题。