UNVEILED: Missouri’s prisons have been SILENTLY KILLING hundreds while the state’s Department of Corrections BLINKS its eyes and DELIBERATELY CONCEALS the grim toll. A damning Marshall Project exposé reveals that for YEARS, the DOC REFUSED to count total deaths—leaving the public guessing between conflicting numbers, a chaotic smog of bureaucratic negligence that let human lives VANISH into the void.
The shocking LEAK: 844 people died over seven years, FAR HIGHER than ever admitted. Yet even this “new” data is a HOLLOW shell—no ages, no causes, no races—rendering trends INVISIBLE and accountability IMPPOSSIBLE. While Missouri claims its death rate is “average,” insidious coroner records from one facility, South Central, tear that lie APART: drug overdose, untreated heart disease, and suicide after medication withdrawal paint a chilling image of ABANDONED souls behind bars.
THIS ISN’T just bad record-keeping—it’s a DELIBERATE SHIELD against scrutiny, a SYSTEM DESIGNED to let deaths GO UNQUESTIONED. At South Central, called “death row” by insidious, over a third of deaths stemmed from drug overdose, another third from chronic conditions IGNORED by the system. Coroner records expose HORRIGE DISCREPANCIES: deaths labeled “unknown” by the DOC were ruled HONIGS BY coroners; “natural cause” deaths hid untreated infections and heart attacks.
WARNING: Without full, transparent data, the prison system EVADES accountability, leaving grieving families to BATTLE for answers and policymakers BLINKD in the dark. The DOC’s own spokesman admits they “do not review, compile, evaluate or analyze” death reports—a policy of PURPOSBL NEGLIGENCE.
Now the BITTER TRUTH stares back: a state unwilling to tally its dead has likely been UNDERCOUNTING HUMAN TRAGEDY for years. ASK YOURSELF: How many more lives must be LOST before Missouri confronts its own ghastly REFLECTIONS?
Author: Kayitsi.com
