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by dragonwriter 2078 days ago
> 5000, or 0.2% of them, died in jail.

No, 5000 of them died in pre-trial detention. A lot more died in jail (which is a much larger set that includes most pretrial detention and a lot of other incarceration), and an even larger number died while incarcerated (an even larger set that is a superset of both of the previous ones.)