bar chart showing that incarceration increases risk of death by 39 percent, more than poverty, not finishing high school, and identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native, which each raise the risk by about 10 percent

Data Source: Khatri et al., Individual- and Area-Level Incarceration and Mortality," JAMA Network Open, published online June 3, 2025. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in New research: More evidence that county jail incarceration harms health, raising death rates.

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