A new report broadly criticizing the management and practices of the United States Bureau of Prisons found that the federal prison in Atlanta saw more inmate deaths than any prison in the country over the report’s eight-year analysis period.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general report chronicled 17 inmate deaths in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary between 2014 and 2021 and pins the loss of life on a lack of adequate medical equipment and function cameras, among other problems. The review does not reveal the causes of death for the Atlanta inmates but notes that suicides made up 187 of 344 total deaths across the federal prison system during that period.
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