The Guardian: There's an alarming number of deaths in US jails. From the DOJ Report "Males accounted for nearly 9 in 10 (87%) deaths in local jails in 2011"

DavidByron · 2013-12-28T18:18:53+00:00

And yet the first three victims they mention by name are all women. The fourth and last is probably a man.

I'm shocked it's only 87% though. What is the percentage of male prisoners in local jails in the first place?

ETA:

yeah it says the death rate is about the same for men and women-- it;'s just that there's so many more men arrested and left to rot in jail without bothering to convict them than women.

In the 12 years in the report men were more likely to die in ten of the twelve years and it was pretty close in all of them. It does seem like maybe it would be easier to prevent male deaths though with them tending to be more suicides whereas women seem to be more poisoning due to alcohol and drugs they ingested (presumably) prior to arrest.

oneiorosgrip · 2013-12-28T18:34:19+00:00

That authorities can get away with such negligence and abuse is an atrocity. That it takes a foreign news source to bring this information to the public is a sad testament to how shitty American journalism has become. We should have heard of this loudly, clearly, and with enough publicity to make it embarrassing to the officials involved and the politicians involved in employing them.

2013-12-28T19:34:24+00:00

If it was 87% women feminists would demand a quota

Title	The Guardian: There's an alarming number of deaths in US jails. From the DOJ Report "Males accounted for nearly 9 in 10 (87%) deaths in local jails in 2011"
Author	DougDante
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Date	December 28, 2013 5:55 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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