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                                    Mortality In Local Jails And State Prisons, 2000-2013 - Statistical Tables

      

                    
          
    Mortality In Local Jails And State Prisons, 2000-2013 - Statistical Tables
"Presents national and state-level data on the number of inmate deaths that occurred in local jails and state prisons, the distribution of deaths across jails, and the aggregate count of deaths in federal prisons. The report presents annual counts and 14-year trends between 2000 and 2013 in deaths in custody. It provides mortality rates per 100,000 inmates in custody in jail or prison; details the causes of death, including deaths attributed to homicide, suicide, illness, intoxication, and accidental injury; describes decedents' characteristics, including age, sex, race or Hispanic origin, legal and hold status, and time served; and specifies the state where the deaths occurred. Data are from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Deaths in Custody Reporting Program, initiated in 2000 under the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-297). Some highlights include: local jail inmate deaths increased 1%, from 958 deaths in 2012 to 967 deaths in 2013; suicides in local jails increased 9%, from 300 suicides in 2012 to 327 in 2013; deaths in prison increased from 3,357 in 2012 to 3,479 in 2013, reaching the highest number since the prison data collection began in 2001--total number of deaths increased 4% between 2012 and 2013; Illness-related deaths accounted for 89% of all deaths in prison in 2013.Accession Number
              030127

      
  
  Publication Year
              2015

  Length
              41 pages

  Authors
          Scott Ginder
          Margaret Noonan
          Harley Rohloff

  Series
          BJA Statistical Tables
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    Violence in institutions
          Criminal justice statistics
          Jails
          Prisons
          Prison violence
          Statistics
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