Few Prison Systems Release Individual Death Data: Death in Custody Reporting Act Completeness, Speed, and Compliance.
| Autor: | Fliss MD; Author Affiliations: Population Health Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Drs Fliss and Brinkley-Rubinstein and Mr Behne); UNC Injury Prevention Research Center (Dr Fliss) and Gillings School of Global Public Health (Mr Behne), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Ms Lao)., Lao J, Behne F, Brinkley-Rubinstein L |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP [J Public Health Manag Pract] 2024 May-Jun 01; Vol. 30 (3), pp. 424-428. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 10. |
| DOI: | 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001893 |
| Abstrakt: | The United States has one of the largest incarcerated populations per capita. Prisons are dangerous environments, with high in-prison and postrelease mortality. The Death in Custody Reporting Acts (DCRAs) of 2000 and 2013 require deaths of people in correctional custody or caused by law enforcement to be reported to the Bureau of Justice Assistance. These deaths must be reported within 3 months of the death and include 10 required fields (eg, age, cause of death). There is no public reporting requirement. Our Third City Mortality project tracks near-real-time data about individual deaths released publicly and prison system metadata, including data completeness and release speed, across (N = 54) US state, federal (N = 2; Bureau of Prisons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Washington, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico prison systems. Twenty-one (38%) systems release no individual death data; 13 systems release incomplete data slower than 1 year; 19 release timely, but incomplete, death data; and only one system (Iowa) releases complete and timely data. Incomplete, untimely, public prison mortality data limit protective community responses and epidemiology. Competing Interests: No conflicts of interest are declared. (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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