Offenders: Mental Illness
(asked on 19th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people diagnosed with a mental health condition received a custodial sentence in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 27th October 2015
This information is not available centrally.
Health Needs Assessments of all prisons and young offender institutions in England, which are being conducted by Public Health England, NHS England and the National Offender Management Service, will provide an analysis of the prevalence of mental health diagnosis amongst people of all ages held in custody and the services needed to support their needs.