⁍ Reuters published the first in a series of investigations on deaths in U.S. jails.

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⁍ Using more than 1,500 public record requests, Reuters surveyed 523 jails for 12 years of inmate death records.

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⁍ The resulting Reuters database is the largest accounting of jail deaths outside of the U.S. federal government.

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– The death rate in US jails has risen more than 8% since President Trump took office, according to a Reuters investigation that used more than 1,500 public record requests to compile the biggest database of its kind outside the federal government. The death rate climbed in the first three years of the Trump administration to the highest point in the 12-year period of 2008 to 2019. Reuters, which surveyed 523 jails and the 10 biggest jail or jail systems in nearly every state, found that more than 8,000 inmates died in US jails between 2008 and 2019. The death rate in local jails, which Reuters describes as “the entry point into the world’s largest mass incarceration system,” rose from 18.8 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2008 to 26.9 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2019. The death rate in federal jails, which Reuters describes as the “center of gravity” in the US criminal justice system, dropped from 30.7 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2008 to 26.9 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2019. The death rate in state jails, which Reuters describes as the “center of gravity” in the US criminal justice system, dropped from 30.7 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2008 to 26.9 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2019. The death rate in federal jails, which Reuters describes as the “center of gravity” in the US criminal justice system, rose from 30.7 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2008 to 36.9 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2019. The death rate in state jails, which Reuters describes as the “the center of gravity” in the US criminal justice system, rose from 30.7 deaths per 1,000 inmates in 2008 to 36.9 deaths. The death rate in federal jails, which Reuters describes as the “the center of gravity” in the US criminal justice system, which is the only place where inmates are often where they are where they are likely to die. The death rates are more, which are “very, which, which are the only the only the only the only the only an analysis of an analysis of a record.