EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 has obtained data that shows the amount of deaths in El Paso County Jails over the past 10 years.
The data shows that since 2020, deaths have risen, specifically suicides. Typically from 2015 to 2020, suicides had been at two, one, or zero per year. There were no suicides in 2023 or 2024, but it rose to 4 in 2025.
There have been 62 deaths from 2015 to now, 30 are classified as death by natural causes, 15 are suicides, 9 are ruled as accidental…