With 8,050 inmate deaths recorded in Texas prisons from 2001 through 2019, the Lone Star State has among the nation’s highest mortality rates among its incarcerated population, according to a new study. Texas experienced the seventh-highest prison mortality rate in the U.S. during that time frame, according to the study, conducted by the Connecticut Trial Firm, which specializes in personal-injury law. Researchers found that 26.4 people died in Texas while incarcerated per 100,000 state residents,