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Written Question
Young Offender Institutions
Tuesday 23rd January 2018

Asked by: Marie Rimmer (Labour - St Helens South and Whiston)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of violence and self-harm in young offenders institutions.

Answered by Phillip Lee

The safety of young people in custody is our highest priority.

Current levels of violence and self-harm within the youth estate are too high. That is why we are investing £64 million to reform youth custody, to reduce violence and improve outcomes for young people upon their release.

This includes expanding frontline staff capacity in public-sector Young Offender Institutions by 20%, introducing a new youth justice specialist role, creating Enhanced Support Units for young people with the most complex needs and developing two secure schools – one in the North West and one in the South East of England.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"I thank all Members from right across the House and all parties, and the Minister for his obvious commitment and desire to do things. We wish him well and look forward to the vast improvements in our prisons and in safeguarding for our prisoners, and to the fruitful lives they …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered mental health in prisons.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Howarth. I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss this intolerable crisis. Suicide and self-harm in prison have reached record highs. In 2016, 119 prison suicides …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"I do, and I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. What she describes is one major component that is missing and would help to resolve the situation. People are locked up in a small cell for the vast majority of the day, subject to a poor diet and living …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"I absolutely agree and will come to that point later in relation to communication.

The Government’s efforts to improve the mental health of people in prison have been poorly co-ordinated. Information is not shared across the organisations involved and not even between community and prison GPs. For example, NOMS advised …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"I absolutely agree. Undoubtedly, having work would keep people safer outside. It would give them a purpose and be a way of keeping them sane outside, so that they did not go through the revolving door back to prison.

The Chair of the Joint Committee requested, in her letter of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"I absolutely do. The institute of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience at King’s College London estimates that more than half of prisoners may have common mental disorders, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, and believes that 15% of prisoners have more specialist needs. Those are significant figures, but guesstimates are …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"I apologise.

The Government’s own prisons and probation information states:

“Prisoners get the same healthcare and treatment as anyone outside of prison.”

That is demonstrably not the case in our prisons at present. In reality it is clear that our prisoners are struggling with ever-increasing levels of poor mental health …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Mental Health in Prisons

"Sadly, I accept my hon. Friend’s point.

It is clear that when people who are already prisoners are acutely mentally unwell, they are being kept in situations that are doubtless of further detriment to them and brutalise them. Evidence obtained by the Joint Committee on Human Rights made clear that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 17 Oct 2017
Dangerous Driving involving Death: Sentencing

"I am sure that many will know of the sad case of four-year-old Violet-Grace Youens, who was killed this year and whose grandmother was left seriously injured when they were returning from their nursery. A stolen car crashed into them at 80 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone …..."
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