After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. That’s about 1,000 people annually. Nearly one-third of those deaths don’t have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

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Despite mandatory medical examiner reviews, the state has no publicly accessible database for in-custody death causes, with ...