In a first-of-its-kind examination, @Reuters tallied fatalities in America’s top jails, pinpointing where suicide, weak healthcare and bad jailkeeping are claiming lives in a system with scant oversight reuters.com/investigates/s…
Between 2009 and 2019, the analysis found, nearly 5,000 people died in jail without getting their day in court. That number subverts a fundamental tenet of the U.S. criminal justice system: innocent until proven guilty reuters.com/investigates/s…
The investigation also found that jails with healthcare overseen by private companies incur higher death rates on average than those with care handled by government agencies reuters.com/investigates/s…
A separate @Reuters analysis of America's big jails and state prisons calculated an 11% drop in inmate populations during the COVID pandemic, with more than 170,000 people walking free reut.rs/2Ttx31L
The data used in this series covers more than 500 local jails and was obtained as a result of more than 1,500 public records requests filed by @Reuters journalists.
Now, you can explore it for yourself
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Now, you can explore it for yourself
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