BJS-funded third-party report available: Mortality in a Multi-State Cohort of Former State Prisoners, 2010-2015

Title: Mortality in a Multi-State Cohort of Former State Prisoners, 2010-2015
Author: Leticia Fernandez and Sonya R. Porter, U.S. Census Bureau; Sharon Ennis, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; and Elizabeth Carson, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Publication date: February 2022
Award Number: DJO-BJS-21-RO-0005

This third-party report was produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies (CES), under award number DJO-BJS-21-RO-0005. It explores the role of race/Hispanic origin, other demographic characteristics, and custodial/criminal history factors on post-release mortality, including the timing of deaths. It also assesses whether conditional release to community supervision or reimprisonment may explain the higher post-release mortality found among non-Hispanic whites. The second part of the analysis estimates standardized mortality ratios by sex, age group, and race/Hispanic origin using the U.S. general population as a reference.

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