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Our Year of Reporting on Deaths in Prisons and Jails, in Short

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By Aaron Sankin Verified
| The Marshall Project Verified
Over the past year, journalists at The Marshall Project have persistently covered the many ways people are dying in prisons and jails across the United States. In our ongoing series, Dying Behind Bars, we’ve looked at how people die and why, frequently, no one is held accountable for those deaths. We’ve discovered that, while prisons and jails are meant to be tightly controlled and surveilled environments, dying in them is a fundamentally opaque process.
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How We Analyzed the Justice Department’s Death in Custody Data

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By Aaron Sankin Verified, Ilica Mahajan
| The Marshall Project Verified
A quarter-century ago, Congress passed the Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA), which mandated that the Justice Department collect information from the states about everyone who dies in law enforcement custody. The Marshall Project’s analysis of the data collected under that legislation shows serious, systematic deficiencies with real-world stakes that dramatically limit how DCRA data can be used to improve conditions and prevent future in-custody deaths. How we got the data On Nov.
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Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?

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By Ilica Mahajan, Anna Flagg Verified, Aaron Sankin Verified
| The Marshall Project Verified
Illustrations by Josie Norton for The Marshall Project Was George Floyd killed by a police officer? The official answer, according to a newly revealed set of federal government records, is no. Under the federal Death in Custody Reporting Act, anyone who dies in law enforcement custody, like during an arrest, must be reported to the Department of Justice.
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