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*FEBRUARY 12, 2020*
Just released: "Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2016 Statistical Tables" [ [link removed] ]
This report is the eighth in a series covering the data collection on Mortality in Correctional Institutions for prisoners. It provides the number and rate of deaths among state and federal prisoners. It describes the cause of death, decedent characteristics, and 15-year trends of prisoner deaths (2001-2016).
*Selected Highlights:*
* From 2015 to 2016, deaths in state prisons increased from 296 to 303 deaths per 100,000 state prisoners.
* From 2015 to 2016, deaths in federal prisons decreased for the first time since 2012, from 283 to 252 deaths per 100,000 federal prisoners.
* Illness-related deaths made up 86% of deaths in state prisons in 2016, with more than half of those being due to cancer (30% of all deaths) or heart disease (28%).
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Just released: "Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2016 Statistical Tables" [ [link removed] ]
This report is the eighth in a series covering the data collection on Mortality in Correctional Institutions for jail inmates. It presents counts and rates of deaths that occurred in the custody of local jails. It describes deaths by selected decedent characteristics, jurisdiction, cause of death, and trends over time.
*Selected Highlights:*
* From 2015 to 2016, the number of deaths in local jails decreased 1.9% (from 1,092 to 1,071 deaths).
* On average, about half of all deaths in local jails from 2006 to 2016 were due to illnesses, such as heart disease, liver disease, and cancer.
* From 2006 to 2016, suicide was the leading single cause of death in local jails each year; it accounted for nearly a third of jail deaths in 2016 (31%), followed by heart disease (28%).
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Findings are based on data from BJS's Mortality in Correctional Institutions [ [link removed] ] collection, which obtains national-, state-, and incident-level data on persons who died while in the physical custody of the 50 state departments of corrections or of the approximately 2,800 local jail jurisdictions with adult populations nationwide.
"Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2016 Statistical Tables" (NCJ 251920) and "Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2016 Statistical Tables "(NCJ 251921) were written by BJS statistician E. Ann Carson and former BJS statistician Mary P. Cowhig. For more information on BJS publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,visitBJS online [ [link removed] ].
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