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Compare list of prisons in OSHA data to list of known private and public prisons #12

Open savannahmhunter opened 3 years ago

savannahmhunter commented 3 years ago

It would be great to know how "complete" OSHA's inspection of prison facilities is. Particularly their record around private prisons. Our data seems to have few private prisons compared to state and federal facilities. It would be helpful to know just how much missingness there is in the data.

We need to find a list of private and public prisons by state and compare to our data.

shapironick commented 3 years ago

We're very close to finishing out master list of prisons, jails and detention centers coded onto EPA identifiers. It may be done too late for your purposes as we should be finished validating by december.

But Here is the base data https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/prison-boundaries/data?geometry=97.022%2C-3.069%2C-116.728%2C75.954 and I shared with you our private prison list. We also have an ICE list, and I'd like for one of my lab members to make a women's prison list.

if you use the HIFLD data above as a base list we can join them using the faclity ID identifier and then we could publish a database of every prison jail and detention center with both their EPA and OSHA IDs. might be too big of an undertaking but its a possibility and figuring out 'completeness' might require a lot of that work.

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It would be great to know how "complete" OSHA's inspection of prison facilities is. Particularly their record around private prisons. Our data seems to have few private prisons compared to state and federal facilities. It would be helpful to know just how much missingness there is in the data.

We need to find a list of private and public prisons by state and compare to our data.

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savannahmhunter commented 3 years ago

Thanks Nick! Is the HIFLD data only public prisons and your master list has all of the private prisons? I am trying to tease about the differences.

shapironick commented 3 years ago

HIFLD should have all types of facilities, but there was no variable for identifying what was and wasn't a private prison to understand what influence that had on the variables we're studying. So we made our own list of all the private carceral facilities. We then joined that data w/ HIFLD data, but some we couldn't find so you will see in column B for those. its split into the three prison companies (tabs) and BOP contract prisons.

We have not yet done a join to add that variable to our database as we need 1 more set of validation.

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Thanks Nick! Is the HIFLD data only public prisons and your master list has all of the private prisons? I am trying to tease about the differences.

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