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State Prison Deaths, 2001-2006

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Table 7. Number of state prisoner deaths, by state, 2001-2006

Region		Total number of state prisoner deaths
		2001-2006		2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
	All statesa	18,550		2,878	2,946	3,167	3,138	3,179	3,242
Northeast		2,723		439	448	492	453	474	417
	Connecticutb	195		30	30	36	34	40	25
	Maine	25		6	7	2	4	0	6
	Massachusetts	180		29	20	30	25	37	39
	New Hampshire	37		2	9	6	6	8	6
	New Jersey	380		69	60	60	59	61	71
	New York	1,014		175	185	198	154	171	131
	Pennsylvania	831		122	126	147	163	149	124
	Rhode Islandb	36		3	8	8	7	2	8
	Vermontb	25		3	3	5	1	6	7
Midwest		3,306		525	532	538	600	542	569
	Illinois	504		86	72	80	99	73	94
	Indiana	324		47	50	56	56	45	70
	Iowab	79		9	11	13	15	19	12
	Kansas	140		21	22	32	30	19	16
	Michigan	770		114	113	127	138	140	138
	Minnesota	69		13	15	13	6	13	9
	Missouri	401		57	65	66	77	70	66
	Nebraska	45		7	8	7	7	8	8
	North Dakota	8		3	1	1	1	1	1
	Ohio	673		115	114	91	126	121	106
	South Dakota	39		4	11	11	5	4	4
	Wisconsin	254		49	50	41	40	29	45
South		8,763		1,370	1,347	1,532	1,461	1,483	1,570
	Alabama	456		87	85	92	65	66	61
	Arkansas	221		42	31	38	35	38	37
	Delawareb	95		16	15	19	13	19	13
	Florida	1,318		182	183	221	227	244	261
	Georgia	640		93	106	126	90	122	103
	Kentucky	253		36	41	45	42	43	46
	Louisiana	477		72	78	70	94	89	74
	Maryland	406		70	71	67	79	57	62
	Mississippi	304		36	33	58	53	64	60
	North Carolina	457		67	61	74	95	70	90
	Oklahoma	394		51	64	71	53	75	80
	South Carolina	369		71	45	63	50	75	65
	Tennessee	440		51	61	97	71	76	84
	Texas	2,376		408	396	383	395	351	443
	Virginia	481		71	69	93	86	84	78
	West Virginia	76		17	8	15	13	10	13
West		3,747		533	619	605	624	680	686
	Alaskab	44		8	14	4	8	4	6
	Arizona	439		65	74	84	66	78	72
	California	2,096		288	337	333	348	366	424
	Colorado	265		43	51	47	39	54	31
	Hawaiib	49		7	13	8	8	8	5
	Idaho	81		17	9	12	12	13	18
	Montana	52		6	5	12	12	12	5
	Nevada	159		27	25	24	31	29	23
	New Mexico	86		11	15	11	16	18	15
	Oregon	193		24	33	25	34	37	40
	Utah	48		3	9	10	11	8	7
	Washington	212		29	31	33	37	45	37
	Wyoming	23		5	3	2	2	8	3
Note: The District of Columbia transferred all prisoner custody operations to the Federal Bureau of Prisons during 2001. Executions are not included; for data on executions, see Capital Punishment, 2006 - Statistical Tables. aIncludes 9 prisoner deaths reported by the District of Columbia in 2001. bPrisons and jails form one integrated system. Data include total jail and prison population.

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