Prison Deaths Increased by 50 Percent in the First Year of the COVID Pandemic

In six states, the rate of deaths in prisons doubled between 2019 and 2020.

The rate of deaths in U.S. prisons during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic increased dramatically, as lawmakers largely ignored the effect of the pandemic on imprisoned people, a grim new analysis found. According to data from researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, deaths in state and federal prisons rose by nearly 50 percent during the first year of the pandemic…

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