Prison and Jail Deaths in Custody, 2000-2009 - Statistical Tables
Date Published
December 2011
Publication Type
Data Table
Agencies
BJS
Death investigations
Deaths in Custody: State and Local Law Enforcement Arrest-Related Deaths, 2003-2006 - Statistical Tables
Date Published
June 2009
Publication Type
Data Table
Agencies
BJS
Linking Uniform Crime Reporting Data to Other Datasets
Date Published
May 2001
Publication Type
Publication
Medical Causes of Death in State Prisons, 2001-2004
Date Published
January 2007
Publication Type
Publication
Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) (Formerly Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP))
Collects inmate death records from each of the nation's 50 state prison systems and approximately 2,800 local jail jurisdictions. Between 2003 and 2014, BJS also collected data on persons who died while in the process of arrest.
Death records include information on decedent personal characteristics (age, race or Hispanic origin, and sex), decedent criminal background (legal status, offense type, and time served), and the death...