The U.S. Department of Justice failed to record the deaths of nearly 1,000 inmates in U.S. jails and prisons properly, an investigation by a Senate committee found.
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Sen. Jon Ossoff as part of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, found that 990 deaths in jails or prisons went unreported in 2021 alone,NBC News. The failure is a direct violation of the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013, and states that fail to uphold this law could see the cutting of 10% of their funding for law enforcement.
Glaringly, the report found that from October to December 2019, the DOJ failed to record any prison deaths in the District of Columbia or 12 other states.
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