Department of Justice federal obligations in Maryland

A mid-thick DOJ file on Maryland

Department of Justice as awarding agency, Maryland as place-of-performance: 4,159 records summing to $3,560,143,425.60. A Department of Justice award coded outside MD is out. An award in Maryland from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maryland (MD) excludes the District of Columbia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. A District-coded DOJ award is the DC join, not this cell.

Four thousand one hundred fifty-nine awards against $3,560,143,425.60 is a mid-thick DOJ action file. Modifications add rows without each row being a new case. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 4,159 as 4,159 unique prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Department of Justice in Maryland is the both-keys table. Maryland federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Justice is the agency book without an MD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This Maryland Justice join is not the Department of State Maryland cell (agency 072). Keep 015 and 072 apart. Correlation is not causation: Maryland did not cause $3,560,143,425.60 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 015 × MD only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

4,159 rows are not 4,159 cases

$3,560,143,425.60 does not measure prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 015 and an MD place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 4,159 awards as a census of prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maryland federal spending or Department of Justice matched $3,560,143,425.60 and 4,159, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. District of Columbia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania Justice joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maryland, not a Baltimore–D.C. justice belt

Place of performance MD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maryland (MD) excludes the District of Columbia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. A District-coded DOJ award is the DC join, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This Maryland Justice join is not the Department of State Maryland cell (agency 072). Keep 015 and 072 apart. This packet does not split $3,560,143,425.60 by city, county, or named facility. 4,159 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Grant and contract stock versus cash already paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,560,143,425.60 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maryland confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maryland’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 4,159-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $3,560,143,425.60. The compact headline $3.56 billion is that same dollar total rounded, not a second extract.

Citing DOJ in Maryland

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $3,560,143,425.60 on 4,159 awards coded to Maryland. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds.

Prefer Department of Justice in Maryland if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maryland federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MD. Department of Justice is the 015 parent without the MD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,560,143,425.60. The implied mean near $856,009 is $3,560,143,425.60 divided by 4,159. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Justice obligated in Maryland?

USAspending.gov records $3,560,143,425.60 across 4,159 awards with awarding agency 015 and a Maryland tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Department of Justice in Maryland is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,560,143,425.60.

Is $3,560,143,425.60 a measure of prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds?

No. The packet publishes $3,560,143,425.60 and 4,159 awards for agency 015 inside MD coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOJ file have 4,159 awards?

That is the award-record count for 015 × MD. Combined with $3,560,143,425.60, the average is about $856,009. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 4,159 is not unique prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DOJ–Maryland table?

Department of Justice in Maryland is the overlay. Maryland federal spending and Department of Justice are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,560,143,425.60. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.