In announcing a bill aimed at making sure all jail deaths are properly reported, Senator Amanda Cappelletti cited stats from a 2022 PennLive investigation that revealed significant existing loopholes.
found less than half of such deaths across Pennsylvania were reported as required to federal authorities.began circulating a letter on January 26
The bill, which is modeled after current law in Texas, would require that all law enforcement agencies - including police, jails and prisons - submit information about people who die while incarcerated, under arrest or during an arrest to the state attorney general within 30 days of when the person dies.
In fact, the investigation by PennLive published in February 2022 found at least 56 people died in county jails across the state in 2020 – the highest rate of death in at least 20 years. But state records were off by nearly 20 percent and less than half of all jail deaths were properly reported to the federal government.
Mitchell is a leading expert on deaths in custody and spoke with PennLive in August when he reviewed the Dauphin County autopsy report and, 29. Thompson went into cardiac arrest within minutes after corrections officers at Dauphin County Prison pepper sprayed him, put a spit hood over his head and forced him into a restraint chair.
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