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A prison is a jail. While I would like to say deaths are less likely in say a city or county jail, the data is not differentiating. County "jails" are included in most prison data. One of the links is literally about "jails", so the pedantry is not useful.



>One of the links is literally about "jails", so the pedantry is not useful.

Both links are about jails, when the discussion was about prisons. Their pedantry was completely on point.

And while prisons and jails are similar enough that you can group data from them to get a view of the entire legally detained population, that doesn't make statements about one entirely transferable to the other. They're different institutions run by different people and housing different (though overlapping) populations.




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