Mortality
Death and dying
- As jail incarceration rates increases, so do county death rates (Created: 2025)
- Black and white women's mortality rates increase with higher jail rates more than men's do, across almost all ages (Created: 2025)
- Most jail suicides occur within a month of admission, and more than 1 in 10 occur within one day (Created: 2024)
- Exposure to extreme heat is deadliest for people in Northeast prisons (Created: 2023)
- Hotter summer days are killing people in state prisons (Created: 2023)
- Jail suicide rates: Out of step with the nation (and U.S. prisons) (Created: 2022)
- Deaths of imprisoned people increased 46% in 2020 (Created: 2022)
- Across the country, prisons have seen higher COVID-19 infection and mortality rates than their surrounding states (Created: 2021)
- Women in jail died of drug and alcohol intoxication at nearly twice the rate of men in 2018 (Created: 2021)
- More than half of all jail deaths occur within a month of admission (Created: 2021)
- Deaths by suicide, homicide and intoxication are on the rise in state prisons (Created: 2021)
- The rise in state prison deaths has outpaced the growth of prison populations since 2001 (Created: 2021)
- Suicide rates have always been higher inside prisons, and the gap is widening (Created: 2021)
- The rise in deaths from drug and alcohol intoxication since 2001 has dramatically outpaced the rise in deaths from any other cause (Created: 2021)
- Solitary confinement increases the risk of premature death after release (Created: 2020)
- Increased risk of death after release from prison for people who experienced solitary confinement compared to those who did not (Created: 2020)
- Terminal and chronic illnesses are the leading causes of death among older people in prison (Created: 2020)
- Jail mortality rates by cause of death, 2000-2016 (Created: 2020)
- Recently incarcerated people are over 40 times more likely to die from an opioid overdose (Created: 2018)
- Analysis of murder rates from 1995 - 2015 (Created: 2016)
- Prison mortality rates by cause of death, 2001-2013 (Created: 2015)
- Capital Punishment is Increasingly Unusual (Created: 2015)
- Executions, 1953-2001 (Created: 2003)
- Death row population, 1953-2001 (Created: 2003)
