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US prison deaths soared in 2020, new study finds

December 5, 2023 by Naomi Sugie

Our recent research, published in Science Advances, finds that US prison deaths increased 77%, or 3.4 times the increase in the general population, in 2020 relative to 2019. See media coverage in The Guardian and Courthouse News Service.

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Naomi F. Sugie

Criminology, Law and Society
School of Social Ecology
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
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