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Deaths in US Prisons Increase for Third Consecutive Year

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A total of 4,446 inmates died in 2013, an increase of 131 deaths from 2012, according to US Justice Department Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The number of inmates who died in US prisons has been increasing for the third consecutive year, US Justice Department Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) said in a press release on Tuesday.

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“A total of 4,446 inmates died in 2013, an increase of 131 deaths from 2012,” the press release said.

While the number of illness-related deaths in US prisons has decreased, the number of deaths resulted from suicides, drug or alcohol intoxication, accidents and homicide is on the rise, according to the bureau.

The BJS Deaths in Custody Reporting Program said it has not received such a high death toll data since 2007.

More than 20 percent of all prison deaths occurred in California and Texas, according to the BJS. The majority of inmates who died in prison were more than 35-year-old males.

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Instances of death in US jails have been on the spotlight following a July incident, when activist Sandra Bland was found hanged in her cell three days after the arrest. The authorities stated Bland committed suicide, but Bland’s family has demanded an investigation into her death.

On July 14, a member of the Choctaw tribe and a longtime community activist Rexdale Henry was found dead by unknown causes in his prison cell following an arrest for failing to pay a traffic fine.

On July 26, African-American woman Ralkina Jones, 37, was found dead in a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, jail cell. Jones was under arrest after a violent argument with her husband.

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