Incarceration Transparency API V1

Data on prison and jail deaths is made available to developers via a read-only API. The API accepts GET requests only and returns data in JSON format.

Endpoints

Returns all records.

https://incarcerationtransparency.org/api/v1/records/deaths_db/


Returns an individual record.


https://incarcerationtransparency.org/api/v1/records/deaths_db/[RECORD_NUMBER]

Filters

Search can be done through filters:

• “cs”: contain string (string contains value)
• “sw”: start with (string starts with value)
• “ew”: end with (string end with value)
• “eq”: equal (string or number matches exactly)
• “lt”: lower than (number is lower than value)
• “le”: lower or equal (number is lower than or equal to value)
• “ge”: greater or equal (number is higher than or equal to value)
• “gt”: greater than (number is higher than value)
• “bt”: between (number is between two comma separated values)
• “in”: in (number or string is in comma separated list of values)
• “is”: is null (field contains “NULL” value)

The columns which can be searched are:

• facility
• decedent_name
• sex
• race
• hispanic/latino
• age
• trial_status
• year_of_death
• cause_of_death
• incident_location
• incident_time
• pre-existing_condition
• days_incarcerated
• Parish

Examples

All deaths in Orleans Parish:


GET api/v1/records/deaths_db/?filter=Parish,cs,Orleans


All deaths of female inmates:


GET api/v1/records/deaths_db/?filter=sex,eq,Female


Combining Filters

All African-American deaths in St. Tammany Parish:


GET api/v1/records/deaths_db/?filter=race,eq,Black&filter=Parish,eq,St. Tammany


The API engine is PHP-CRUD-API and more information is available on that project’s Github page. If you have questions about the API, feel free to contact Judson Mitchell at Loyola College of Law.