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Longer Life in Prison than Free?

Is prison the place to be to live a longer life?  The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released Medical Causes of Death in State Prisons, 2001-2004.  Among its findings are that "State prisoners had a 19% lower death rate than the adult U.S. resident population; among blacks the morality rate was 57% lower among prisoners."

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