However, in 2013, while Russia was still a member of the G8, there were more than 4200 inmate deaths in it’s prisons with more than ten percent being suicides. Currently, the World Health Organization is monitoring an outbreak of tuberculosis in Russian prisons. Tuberculosis is treatable with a long established regime of medications. The treatment takes place over months and up to a year depending on the individual and supportive measures such as good nutrition.
Currently, as of July 2018, there are 408 Russian prisoners per 100,000 population. Of that 17.7 percent are detainees, 0.2 percent are children and 4.3 percent are foreign. Those numbers have been in steady decline over a ten year period.
The statistics for the USA are worse with the most incarcerated deaths occurring in state prisons with more than 3300 per year. The local jails are responsible for less than 1000 per year. Oddly the number of children incarcerated in the USA are the same as Russia. Russia does not have the gun death statistics as does the USA. The USA incarnation statistics were steadily growing until the US Justice Department reviewed non-violent offenders under President Obama.
