Michigan admits to errors in state prison death counts

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Michigan admits to errors in state prison death counts
25 minutes ago

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 hasn’t been accurately or consistently tracking the deaths as it is federally mandated to do.

The Detroit Free Press’ analysis of open records comes as Michigan’s 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 state’s prisons last year. It’s the highest number of state prison deaths reported since 2009, when 148 Michigan prisoners died.

But Michigan’s 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.

Read more: https://apnews.com/aa132bb8bd2c4fa691d4d6b4f306a2cd

[marble falls]

1. Oops. Its only some prisoners, right? The way we treat humans and animal life.

[yaesu]

2. I think a lot of blunders will come to light now that MI has a Dem governor after so many years

of fascist rule.

[keithbvadu2]

3. It's only an 'error' when discovered. Before that, it's deliberate.