More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from public view since 2021.
edit: added archive https://archive.ph/UbZN3
More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from public view since 2021.
edit: added archive https://archive.ph/UbZN3
My bet would be that it’s worse. Turn up some stories about what’s happened in the GEO Group prisons alone since the turn of the millennium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group
Guessing the same, though to add another element into this that you bring up, private prisons are not included in the data that USA Today obtained. It also doesn’t appear to include any federal prison data either. Just local jails and state prisons.
I think conditions have improved, but look worse because things have improved. I know that makes no sense.
Many jails have horrible things done to people. But due to the various reforms and court actions, many but not all places have more transparent reporting while having small improvement.