The purpose of this report is to establish the Justice Data Warehouse (JDW). This integrated platform links data from courts, jails, prisons, community supervision, and more, offering a comprehensive, longitudinal view of individuals’ justice system involvement. The JDW enhances transparency, supports data-driven policy, and enables cross-sector collaboration with behavioral health, housing, and social services. It empowers interested parties to identify system gaps, evaluate reforms, and design more equitable, effective interventions. By centralizing justice data and supporting Tribal and local jurisdictions, the JDW plays a pivotal role in building a smarter, fairer, and more accountable justice system for Washington state.

The global 2020 coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the operations and actions of local, state, and national governments across all areas of criminal justice. The unique characteristics of this pandemic trend toward short- and long-term consequences as significant changes to criminal justice and legal outcomes. To respond to these impacts, the Washington Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) applied for and received the 2022 State Justice Statistics (SJS) grant from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The SAC sought the grant to increase access to statistical data and create new metrics and indicators to enhance the integrated criminal justice database — the Justice Data Warehouse (JDW) — in efforts to strategically and analytically evaluate the pandemic’s impacts in criminal justice. Through this grant, the Washington SAC leveraged and built upon the JDW to expand the data variables by creating COVID-19 metrics and indicators to help assess and account for COVID-19 impacts in the criminal justice and legal system.

Provides statewide jail booking data for calendar years 2010 through 2013.

This project will draw on the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Jail Booking and Reporting System to evaluate the readiness, (e.g., relevance, interpretability, coherence, and accuracy) of this data set.

This project will draw on the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC)'s Jail Booking and Reporting System (JBRS) to evaluate the potential demographic disparities by rates of days in jail and by rates of recidivism.