Nearly 47,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the number ...
Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. That's about 1,000 people annually. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal ...
For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...
“Death Under Watch” is an ongoing series by MassLive and The Springfield Republican investigating deaths in Massachusetts prisons and jails. Massachusetts prisons and jails have seen more than 140 ...
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After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...