How much has Department of Justice obligated in South Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $486,032,163.14 across 1,097 awards with awarding agency 015 and a South Carolina tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not South Carolina’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 1,097 Justice awards mean 1,097 South Carolina prosecutions?

No. $486,032,163.14 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 015 × SC. It does not measure prosecutions, inmate counts, or named courthouses. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Why does this DOJ file have 1,097 awards?

1,097 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $486,032,163.14 by 1,097 yields about $443,055.75 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Department of Justice in South Carolina?

Department of Justice in South Carolina is the overlay for both keys. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency South Carolina hub. Department of Justice is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.

Department of Justice in South Carolina

Federal obligations from Department of Justice to South Carolina

Total obligated

$495.7M

Awards

Department of Justice shows $486,032,163.14 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to South Carolina, across 1,097 awards. Awarding-agency 015 and South Carolina (SC) are the pair. 1,097 awards against $486,032,163.14 is a 1,097-award justice file, not a docket census. The implied mean is about $443,055.75 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.

Key figures

Department of Justice obligated $486,032,163.14 in South Carolina across 1,097 awards (USAspending.gov).
The pair is awarding-agency 015 × place-of-performance SC.
Amounts are obligations, not outlays; no fiscal year is in this packet.
The implied mean near $443,055.75 is $486,032,163.14 divided by 1,097, not a typical award.
The join does not name contractors and does not measure prosecutions, inmate counts, or named courthouses.

Agency 015 overlapping South Carolina

Department of Justice as awarding agency, South Carolina as place-of-performance: 1,097 awards summing to $486,032,163.14. A Department of Justice award coded outside SC is out. An award in South Carolina from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Carolina (SC) excludes North Carolina and Georgia. A Charleston-coded award with a Georgia place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

1,097 awards against $486,032,163.14 is a 1,097-award justice file, not a docket census. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,097 as 1,097 unique prosecutions, inmate counts, or named courthouses. Department of Justice in South Carolina is the both-keys table. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Justice is the agency book without a SC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Component names such as FBI or BOP are not packet fields on this aggregate. Unique courthouses are unpublished. Do not invent defendants. Correlation is not causation: South Carolina did not cause $486,032,163.14 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 015 × SC only.

DOJ dollars are not a case count

$486,032,163.14 does not measure prosecutions, inmate counts, or named courthouses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 015 and an SC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,097 awards as a census of prosecutions, inmate counts, or named courthouses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Carolina federal spending or Department of Justice matched $486,032,163.14 and 1,097, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state DOJ joins are other pairs, not addends.

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Questions

How much has Department of Justice obligated in South Carolina?: USAspending.gov records $486,032,163.14 across 1,097 awards with awarding agency 015 and a South Carolina tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not South Carolina’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Do 1,097 Justice awards mean 1,097 South Carolina prosecutions?: No. $486,032,163.14 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 015 × SC. It does not measure prosecutions, inmate counts, or named courthouses. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.
Why does this DOJ file have 1,097 awards?: 1,097 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $486,032,163.14 by 1,097 yields about $443,055.75 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Where is the live table for Department of Justice in South Carolina?: Department of Justice in South Carolina is the overlay for both keys. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency South Carolina hub. Department of Justice is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

Department of Justice federal obligations in South Carolina

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