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Report comes in the wake of Sandra Bland’s death behind bars.

The number of people who died by suicide in local jails ticked up in 2013, even as the overall jail population declined, according to a new report.

Between 2012 and 2013, the number of suicides went from 300 to 327, a 9 percent increase, according to a report from the Justice Department released this month. That jump comes even as the overall jail population declined by 4 percent, the report said.

Total deaths were also up slightly between 2012 and 2013, from 958 to 967. Suicide, the report noted, has been the leading cause of death in jails every year since 2000. In 2013, 34 percent of inmates’ deaths were by their own hands.

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In this July 10, 2015, frame from dashcam video provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety, trooper Brian Encinia arrests Sandra Bland after she became combative during a routine traffic stop in Waller County, Texas. Bland was taken to the Waller County Jail that day and was found dead in her cell on July 13. The new Justice Department report comes in the wake of her death. In this July 10, 2015, frame from dashcam video provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety, trooper Brian…

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