The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.

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 ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

COVID-19 patients who have a severe heart attack are at 25% higher risk for death than uninfected heart attack patients—more ...

“Death Under Watch” is an ongoing series by MassLive and The Springfield Republican investigating deaths in Massachusetts prisons and jails. Massachusetts prisons and jails have seen more than 140 ...

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Hundreds of people died inside New Jersey state prisons over the past seven years, many from heart disease, cancer and COVID-19, according to newly released data that the Department of Corrections had ...