The Bureau of Justice Statistics recorded 127 deaths in New Hampshire’s state prisons from 2001 through 2019 and 63 in its local jails from 2000 through 2019. The state-run reporting that replaced that count missed a large share of deaths nationwide, the Justice Department found.
Federal prisoner counts going back to 1990 show New Hampshire’s imprisonment rate climbing faster than the states’ combined rate until 2020, then falling faster. At the end of 2023 it was 151 per 100,000, sixth-lowest among the states.
Annulment costs about $350, takes months, and does real work, but it leaves an arrest report in your town’s police file that New Hampshire law says must be kept permanently.
