WITNESS
Dr. Allen J. Beck is the Chief of the Corrections Statistics Program at the Bureau of Justice Statistics. He has been a statistician in the Corrections Statistics Program since 1985. Dr. Beck is currently responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Past work has included national studies of recidivism, estimation of the lifetime chances of going to State or Federal prison, analyses of trends in U.S. probation and parole populations, and research related to rising incarceration rates. In addition to supervising BJS correctional surveys and censuses, he is involved in special projects, including an analysis of jail admissions and releases, causes of death among prison and jail inmates, inmate medical problems and health care, and prisoner reentry. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology with a specialty in population studies and survey methods at the University of Michigan.
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