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The Death in Custody Reporting Act does not apply to federal law enforcement agencies or the Federal Bureau of Prisons. However, BJS has collected annual counts of deaths in federal prisons, by cause of death, as part of the National Prisoners Statistics program since the 1970s. While the cause of death categories are slightly different than those used for the DCRP collections from state prisons and local jails, these data may be useful for comparative purposes.
Deaths of prisoners under federal jurisdiction, by cause of death, 1999-2008 |
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Year | Number of federal prisoner deaths, by cause | Federal prisoner count, yearend | |||||||
All causes |
Illness* | AIDS- related |
Suicide | Accidental self-injury |
Execution | Caused by another |
Unspecified cause |
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2008 | 399 | 345 | 13 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 173,896 |
2007 | 368 | 313 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 15 | 174,106 |
2006 | 328 | 294 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 170,581 |
2005 | 388 | 327 | 27 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 166,462 |
2004 | 333 | 295 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 159,897 |
2003 | 347 | 315 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 152,750 |
2002 | 335 | 289 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 144,540 |
2001 | 303 | 247 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 137,116 |
2000 | 285 | 242 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 130,683 |
1999 | 268 | 235 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 121,854 |
* Excludes AIDS-related deaths. | |||||||||
Source: National Prisoners Statistics program, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice. |
Mortality rate per 100,000 federal prisoners, by cause of death, 1999-2008 |
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Year | Mortality rate per 100,000 federal prisoners, by cause | ||||||||
All causes |
Illness* | AIDS- related |
Suicide | Accidental self-injury |
Execution | Caused by another |
Unspecified cause |
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2008 | 229 | 198 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |
2007 | 211 | 180 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | |
2006 | 192 | 172 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
2005 | 233 | 196 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
2004 | 208 | 184 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
2003 | 227 | 206 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
2002 | 232 | 200 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
2001 | 221 | 180 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |
2000 | 218 | 185 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
1999 | 220 | 193 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
Note: Detail may not add to total rate due to rounding. Mortality rates are per 100,000 prisoners held under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons at yearend | |||||||||
* Excludes AIDS-related deaths. | |||||||||
Source: National Prisoners Statistics program, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice |
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