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Number Of Jail Deaths At Lowest Recorded Level During 2011

In 2011, 885 inmates died in the custody of local jails, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This is the lowest number of jail inmate deaths in the 12-year history of the BJS Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP). The 2011 jail mortality rate was 122 deaths per 100,000 inmates. [read the full story here]

PR Newswire, Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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