Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from ...

According to a federal database of in-custody deaths obtained by The Marshall Project, nearly 4,000 people died in jails over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023. In our series Undercounted, Here ...

A life-threatening condition called sepsis kills hundreds of people in American jails and prisons each year, a USA TODAY investigation has found, but inmates with a history of drug use are at ...