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From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000."
California's only death row for men is at San Quentin. The prison was constructed by incarcerated men on the Waban, a ship anchored in San Francisco Bay and California's first prison. Sierra Conservation Center: SCC Tuolumne: 1965 Yes 3,836 4,012 104.6% Valley State Prison: VSP Madera: 1995 Yes 1,980 2,971 150.1% Wasco State Prison: WSP Kern ...
Killed by fellow inmate: Serial killer: Aaron Hernandez: 2017-04-19 United States: Suicide: Former tight-end for NFL team New England Patriots, later convicted of murdering Odin Lloyd: Found not guilty of the 2012 double homicide of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado just 5 days before he was found dead. Yip Kai Foon: 2017-04-19 Hong Kong: Lung ...
A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population.
A year-long investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and USA TODAY Network Ohio examined 219 deaths in jail custody that were reported to the state Department of Rehabilitation ...
Ohio State Penitentiary currently holds level 5, 4, 3 and 1 inmates. Level 1 inmates are housed outside of the institutional fence in their own building. Inmates placed in restricted housing for disciplinary rules infractions are locked down with the exception of showers, restrooms, and one recreation period of one hour, 5 days per week.
Shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday, Robert Turnstall, 64, was attacked by another inmate in a recreation yard at Salinas Valley State Prison, officials said. He was pronounced dead just after 9:20 a.m.
By the late 1990s, after adopting more powerful weapons, the state was paying out massive settlements to shooting victims. The state tasked a former assistant director of the prison system, Richard Ehle, to review some of these incidents. Ehle oversaw a panel that examined as many as 100 cases, and found that many violated state and federal law.