On Nov. 20, 2024, The Marshall Project accessed a page on the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s website that displayed high-level, aggregated data about people who died in law enforcement custody. The ...

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 ...

Mortality surveillance and cause of death data are instrumental in improving health, identifying diseases and conditions that cause a high burden of preventable deaths, and allocating resources to ...

Death certification and cause of death reporting constitute fundamental processes within public health and epidemiological monitoring. The accurate recording of these details is imperative, as the ...

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 ...