WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice did not properly count nearly 1,000 deaths of incarcerated people in jails and prisons, according to a bipartisan report released Tuesday by a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee. Since the transfer, DOJ has not reported the data that BJA has collected, according to the report. The report found that the Justice Department did not properly manage the data collection transfer from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to the Bureau of Justice Assistance. “BJA’s failure to properly collect and report on custodial death data stands in marked contrast to BJS’s successful efforts to do these same things for 20 years,” according to the report. The report also found that for fiscal 2021, a majority of the death in custody information from BJA was incomplete.

Source: Washington Post September 20, 2022 19:23 UTC