Department of Justice federal obligations in West Virginia

DOJ awards tagged to West Virginia

Department of Justice as awarding agency, West Virginia as place-of-performance: 1,726 records summing to $837,638,070.86. A Department of Justice award coded outside WV is out. An award in West Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. West Virginia (WV) excludes Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. A Kentucky-coded DOJ award is the Kentucky Justice join, not this cell.

One thousand seven hundred twenty-six awards against $837,638,070.86 is a mid-count DOJ file, thinner than Kentucky’s 2,916 on a similar dollar scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,726 as 1,726 unique prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Department of Justice in West Virginia is the both-keys table. West Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Justice is the agency book without a WV filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named facilities and U.S. Attorney districts are unpublished. Do not assign $837,638,070.86 to a single courthouse. Correlation is not causation: West Virginia did not cause $837,638,070.86 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 015 × WV only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

1,726 rows are not 1,726 cases

$837,638,070.86 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 a WV place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,726 awards as a census of prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If West Virginia federal spending or Department of Justice matched $837,638,070.86 and 1,726, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio Justice joins are other pairs, not addends.

West Virginia, not an Appalachian justice rollup

Place of performance WV is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. West Virginia (WV) excludes Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. A Kentucky-coded DOJ award is the Kentucky Justice join, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Named facilities and U.S. Attorney districts are unpublished. Do not assign $837,638,070.86 to a single courthouse. This packet does not split $837,638,070.86 by city, county, or named facility. 1,726 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. $837,638,070.86 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in West Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

West Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,726-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 $837,638,070.86. The compact headline $838 million is that same dollar total rounded, not a second extract.

Citing DOJ in West Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $837,638,070.86 on 1,726 awards coded to West Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds.

Prefer Department of Justice in West Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. West Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WV. Department of Justice is the 015 parent without the WV filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $837,638,070.86. The implied mean near $485,306 is $837,638,070.86 divided by 1,726. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Justice obligated in West Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $837,638,070.86 across 1,726 awards with awarding agency 015 and a West Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds. Department of Justice in West Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $837,638,070.86.

Is $837,638,070.86 a measure of prosecutions, unique defendants, or prison beds?

No. The packet publishes $837,638,070.86 and 1,726 awards for agency 015 inside WV 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 1,726 awards?

That is the award-record count for 015 × WV. Combined with $837,638,070.86, the average is about $485,306. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,726 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–West Virginia table?

Department of Justice in West Virginia is the overlay. West Virginia 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 $837,638,070.86. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.