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Table 2 National Jail Survey Recruitment Method and Survey Yield

Study Team Action	Number Participants Targeted	Number of Responses Received
Wave 1 Electronic Recruitment (before Wave 2)	2017	210
Added Contacts from Large Jail Network	32^a	11
Wave 2 Paper Recruitment	908	254
Added non-responders from Wave 1 to Wave 2	~ 1807	638
NSA endorsement through state head emails^b	–	26
TOTAL RESPONSES		1139

^aSome facilities from the Large Jail Network were in the Compendium but the LJN listed a different contact person in which we included (of the 32 contacts, 11 new facilities were added to the Compendium)
^bWe suspected those who completed the survey who were not a part of our direct recruitment methods learned about the survey through the National Sheriff Association’s endorsement through state head emails

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