Study: Louisiana is the U.S. state with the highest prison mortality rate

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A new study showed that Louisiana ranked as the top state in the United States with the highest prison mortality rate.

In a study from Connecticut Trial Firm, personal injury lawyers used data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to discover which U.S. states had the highest prison mortality rates, according to a news release.

The number of deaths that took place in prisons between 2001-19 in each state was "scaled against 100,000 people in each...