Michigan admits to errors in state prison death counts
Source: Associated Press
Michigan admits to errors in state prison death counts
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) The Michigan Department of Corrections has acknowledged errors in its counts of state prison deaths after a newspaper investigation revealed the agency hasnt been accurately or consistently tracking the deaths as it is federally mandated to do.
The Detroit Free Press analysis of open records comes as Michigans prisoners are dying at the highest rate in at least 25 years.
Michigan reported to the federal government that there were 135 deaths in the states prisons last year. Its the highest number of state prison deaths reported since 2009, when 148 Michigan prisoners died.
But Michigans prison population has dropped by roughly 7,000 inmates since then, so the state last year also saw the highest rate of prison deaths since at least 1994, according to records sent to the Department of Justice.
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