"For the third consecutive year, the number
of inmates who died while in the custody of
local jails or state prisons increased. A total of
4,446 inmates died in 2013, an increase of 131 deaths
since 2012. The number of deaths in local jails and
prison decreased an annual average of 2% between
2008 and 2010.
In 2013, a total of 967 jail inmates died while in
the custody of local jails. The number of deaths
increased from 958 deaths in 2012 to 967 in 2013,
while the jail population decreased 4%. As a result,
the overall mortality rate in local jails increased
from 128 per 100,000 jail inmates in 2012 to
135 per 100,000 in 2013. Suicide and heart disease
have been the top two causes of death in local jails
since 2000 (figure 1). Suicide has been the leading
cause of death in jails every year since 2000. In
2013, a third (34%) of jail inmate deaths were due
to suicide. The suicide rate increased 14%, from
40 suicides per 100,000 jail inmates in 2012 to
46 per 100,000 in 2013...:
Prison deaths
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