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Crime Statistics > State Prisons > Number of Homicides (most recent) by state

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Rank   States  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1  California:21 
#2  Texas:10 
#3  Maryland:6 
#4  Georgia:4 
#5  Oklahoma:4 
#6  Tennessee:3 
#7  New York:3 
#8  Florida:3 
#9  Indiana:3 
#10  South Carolina:3 
#11  New Mexico:2 
#12  Arkansas:2 
#13  Ohio:2 
#14  Washington:2 
#15  Illinois:2 
#16  Nevada:2 
#17  North Carolina:2 
#18  Pennsylvania:2 
#19  South Dakota:2 
#20  Colorado:2 
#21  Michigan:1 
#22  Arizona:1 
#23  Alabama:1 
#24  Kentucky:1 
#25  Missouri:1 
#26  Utah:1 
#27  Virginia:1 
#28  Idaho:0 
#29  Hawaii:0 
#30  Vermont:0 
#31  Wisconsin:0 
#32  Oregon:0 
#33  West Virginia:0 
#34  Kansas:0 
#35  Rhode Island:0 
#36  Iowa:0 
#37  Mississippi:0 
#38  New Jersey:0 
#39  Montana:0 
#40  Nebraska:0 
#41  North Dakota:0 
#42  Minnesota:0 
#43  Delaware:0 
#44  Massachusetts:0 
#45  Maine:0 
#46  Connecticut:0 
#47  Alaska:0 
#48  Louisiana:0 
#49  New Hampshire:0 
#50  Wyoming:0 
Total: 87  
Weighted average: 1.7  


DEFINITION: Number of homicides among prisoners in state correctional facilities.

SOURCE: Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Prisoner Suicides and Homicides, 2001.

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