Prison inmates are living longer than those outside jail:
State prison inmates, particularly blacks, are living longer on average than people on the outside, the government said Sunday.Inmates in state prisons are dying at an average yearly rate of 250 per 100,000, according to the latest figures reported to the Justice Department by state prison officials. By comparison, the overall population of people between age 15 and 64 is dying at a rate of 308 a year.
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Big surprise! Subtract crack cocaine and other drugs, alcohol, and violent crime – which is rampant in the inner city – and you get longer African American lifespans. Not to say none of this occurs in prison but at much much lower rates. Additonally, you also have a captive audience when it comes to healthcare screening for HTN, diabetes, etc. I am sure the compliance rates in prison are better for meds etc.
This doesn’t QUITE say what it claims to.
There would need to be a much better breakdown on ages before it did.
For instance, if the average ag in prison is 20 and th average age of the population is 30, then well, duh, the prison population “18-64″ will be dying less than the non-prison population “18-64″. That’s a HUGE range.
What would be MUCH more useful would be the average age of death in prison versus out of prison.
I am writting an aritcle on this subject for my school newspaper, and it is really hard to find out why inmates live longer! can you tell me why?
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