KCUR 89.3 FM: Missouri had no way to know how many people died in state prisons — until now
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 ...
Missouri had no way to know how many people died in state prisons — until now
The Marshall Project: Missouri Journalists: How to Access the State Prison System’s Comprehensive Death Data
In response to questions from The Marshall Project - St. Louis in October about how Missouri prison deaths are tracked and recorded, the research team at the Missouri Department of Corrections ...
Missouri Journalists: How to Access the State Prison System’s Comprehensive Death Data
KCUR 89.3 FM: Missouri’s prison population fell sharply since 2018. But deaths in custody are up 12%
The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month. About 24,000 people are held in Missouri’s prisons.
Missouri’s prison population fell sharply since 2018. But deaths in custody are up 12%
The Marshall Project: There Was No Way to Know How Many People Died in Missouri Prisons — Until Now
For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. “Deaths ...
There Was No Way to Know How Many People Died in Missouri Prisons — Until Now