The Data Liberation Project

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Federal Inmate Deaths

The Data Liberation Project filed a FOIA Request to the Bureau of of Prisons seeking data records representing each federal inmate death since 2005. The agency responded to the request with a spreadsheet containing 8,242 entries, each representing a deceased inmate.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650Number of Deaths2006200820102012201420162018202020222024Year of Death

Data last updated August 2024

Created by Priya Misner