On Nov. 20, 2024, The Marshall Project accessed a page on the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s website that displayed high-level, aggregated data about people who died in law enforcement custody. The ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Death Under Watch” is an ongoing series by MassLive and The Springfield Republican investigating deaths in Massachusetts prisons ...

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 certification and cause of death reporting constitute fundamental processes within public health and epidemiological monitoring. The accurate recording of these details is imperative, as the ...

Chaplain Jacobs escalates campaign to state after two years of unmet local reporting. County agencies cite new death-certificate system and privacy limits for data gaps. Council members plan to press ...

Pierce County reported 127 confirmed drug deaths in Q4 2024, up from prior months. Stimulants and fentanyl were involved in over two-thirds of recent confirmed cases. Data gaps and delays in reporting ...

“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 ...