Death certification and cause of death reporting constitute fundamental processes within public health and epidemiological monitoring. The accurate recording of these details is imperative, as the ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

On Nov. 20, 2024, The Marshall Project accessed a page on the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s website that displayed high-level, aggregated data about people who died in law enforcement custody. The ...

Chaplain Jacobs escalates campaign to state after two years of unmet local reporting. County agencies cite new death-certificate system and privacy limits for data gaps. Council members plan to press ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...