New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era

Center for Justice at Columbia University

This report compiles and analyzes data on in-custody deaths in New York State between 1976 and 2020 and offers policy recommendations for curtailing the number of deaths behind bars. Without policy intervention, thousands of currently incarcerated New Yorkers are at risk of dying behind bars in the years and decades to come.