Every year millions of people cycle through America’s prisons and jails. Many of them never make it home. Incarcerated people die of medical neglect. They die because guards beat them or because they ...

When someone dies in a San Diego County jail, the public typically learns only the basics: a name, an age, the charges that brought the person into custody and, months later, the medical examiner’s ...

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 ...

According to a federal database of in-custody deaths obtained by The Marshall Project, nearly 4,000 people died in jails over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023. In our series Undercounted, Here ...

Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. That's about 1,000 people annually. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal ...

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for our newsletters to receive all of our stories and analysis. Using information from a federal ...