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Data on the population currently incarcerated under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Information was acquired via the California Public Records Act (CPRA).

Before releasing these records, CDCR excluded individuals meeting certain privacy-related criteria, such as those tied to health and age. To enhance privacy and security, we replaced original CDCR identification numbers with pseudonyms.

The data consists of three unique tables: demographics, current commitments and prior commitments connected by CDCR identification numbers.

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demographics

Commitments

This open data initiative is an independent effort by Redo.io. It is not supported by, affiliated with, or endorsed by the Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law, the Office of the State Public Defender, or any other organization we partner or collaborate with.

Get the Data

View and download the sentencing data we obtained from CDCR under the California Public Records Act.

Browse and download the raw data tables, plus the code that processes them, on GitHub.

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3.0

Download the archived dataset with a DOI for citation in court filings and research, hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Citation

If you make use of our dataset(s), please cite our work using either one of the citations:

Redo.io. 2025. “Demographics and Commitments of California’s Prison Population 2023 & 2025.” Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QCTMSI

Redo.io. offenses-data (Version 1.0.0) [Dataset]. https://github.com/redoio/offenses_data

License

This offenses-data resource is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/ by Redo.io. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/