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Data acquired by the the UCLA School of Law’s Behind Bars Data Project indicates that 6,182 imprisoned people died behind bars in 2020 compared to 4,240 in 2019, a 62 percent increase despite a 10 percent decline in the US prison population.
The first comprehensive data on prison fatalities in the Covid era sheds new light on where and why prisoners were especially vulnerable.
The Behind Bars Data Project’s database improves on discontinued efforts by the federal government to report this information.
Prisons used just a fraction of the antiviral drugs they were allocated to keep incarcerated people from getting ill or dying of Covid.
Michael Ollove/Stateline.org The Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains a public dashboard showing the status of Covid-19 in its prisons, including a tally of those who have died. Earlier this week, that number stood at 173 confirmed Covid-19 deaths. The dashboard links to a list of names th