Mortality In State Prisons, 2001-2014 – Statistical Tables

On December 14, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice published these statistics on mortality in state prisons for the years 2001-2014. Data in this report were developed from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) DCRP, an annual data collection of inmate deaths in local jails and state prisons. Key themes of this data include inmate death in state & federal prisons, cause of inmate death, decedent characteristics, inmate deaths reported by state, and moving averages & population trends by prisoner mortality . . .