A New Project at Yale Examines In-Custody Starvation Deaths

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In February 2023, investigative journalists at the New York Times analyzed carceral death data collected by the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project for the years 2019-2021. In their published findings, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Allie Pitchon reported an almost 50% jump in prison deaths in the wake of Covid and assessed possible reasons for the substantial increase. See below for the full article.