Professor Justin Strong and SJSU alum Ernest Chavez published a study “Death and disappearance: Measuring racial disparities in mortality and life expectancy among people in state prisons, United States 2000–2014” on prisoner who died in prison across 44 states in the US from 2010 to 2014. They found that prisoner deaths dropped between 2010 to 2014, and mostly older men died during this period. But they also found that men in their 30s were dying at similar rates as men in their early 20s. The group that did the best (had the biggest change in longer lives) were Black men. The authors conclude that the efforts to keep men alive longer in prison are working but more research is needed to figure out what works over a longer time period and for which groups.