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But deaths in custody are up 12% The “mortality” of Missouri prisoners is not a performance standard for the state’s health care contractor, the MDOC director said this month. About 24,000 people are held in Missouri’s prisons. Missouri’s prison population fell sharply since 2018. But deaths in custody are up 12% After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time.