Highest Prison Death Rates Ever Recorded Are Signs of Long-Standing Structural Issues

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US federal and state prisons saw a 42 percent spike in inmate deaths from 4,200 in 2019 to 6,100 in 2020. In a January 2022 article for his Substack newsletter The Column, Adam Johnson examined this rising death toll and the lack of…
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