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Aug 1, 2024 · The incident at Ely State Prison, the only maximum-security prison in the state, left three people dead and nine others injured.
Jul 14, 2023 · • Section B, Prison Commitments, provides prison intake data by the number and characteristics of new prisoners received by the Department. • Section C, Prisoner Population, presents descriptions of Michigan’s Correctional Facilities and statistics regarding the characteristics of the prisoner population. • Section D, Parole Board
6 days ago · Also in July, state prison officials came under fire due to the lack of cooling in the state’s prisons, such as Ely. Nevada has 60 inmates on death row at the Ely prison, according to the Death ...
- Record-Setting Deaths in Almost All Categories
- Suicide Rates in Prison Are Higher Than Ever
- Who Is Committing Homicide in Prison?
In 2018, state prisons reported 4,135 deaths (not including the 25 people executed in state prisons); this is the highest number on record since BJS began collecting mortality data in 2001. Between 2016 and 2018, the prison mortality rate jumped from 303 to a record 344 per 100,000 people, a shameful superlative. It may seem like a foregone conclus...
Incarceration is not only difficult for someone who comes in with mental health needs, but it creates and exacerbatesdisconnection, despair, and overall psychological distress. Prison is basically a mental health crisis in and of itself, and too many incarcerated people contemplate and/or complete suicide. In 2018, state prisons saw the highest num...
While prisons are secure, they are largely unsafe.The number of homicides in state prisons reached a record high of 120 deaths in 2018, a reminder that while prisons are secure, they are largely unsafe. Violence in prison is commonplace, tied to trauma prior to incarceration as well as mental health stressors inside. The rate of homicide in state p...
May 1, 2020 · In March 2020, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, The Marshall Project began to track how many people were sickened and killed by COVID-19 in federal and state prisons across the country. For more than a year, working with The Associated Press, we updated the numbers every week.
- The Marshall Project
Mar 25, 2021 · As of Dec. 31, 2019, the state had 38,053 people incarcerated in the state’s prison system, a 1.8 percent dip from where it stood at the end of 2018, but a 26.1 percent drop from 51,515 — the highpoint of the state’s prison population, reached in 2006.
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May 9, 2020 · The Michigan Department of Corrections has logged more coronavirus deaths than any other state prison system and ranks second nationwide behind New Jersey for prisoner deaths per...
