Death in prison: Changing mortality patterns among male prisoners in Maryland, 1979-87

M.E. Salive, G.S. Smith and T.F. Brewer

American Journal of Public Health, 1990, vol. 80, issue 12, 1479-1480

Abstract: The leading causes of death (rate per 100,000 prisoner-years) in Maryland state prisons for the period 1979-87 were circulatory system disease (59), suicide (40), and homicide and legal intervention (30). Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) became the leading cause of death in 1987. Homicides declined after 1980; drug overdose deaths peaked in 1981 and later disappeared. Male inmates have 39 percent lower all-cause death rates than the general population of Maryland after adjustment for age and race.

Date: 1990
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