Prisoners: Suicide
(asked on 3rd November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cause of death was on each occasion when a person took their own life in prison in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 6th November 2015
Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in prisons.
Data on deaths in custody is included in the quarterly ‘Safety in Custody’ statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics
These are accompanied by more detailed annual data tables, including, table 1.12 showing the method used in all self-inflicted deaths in prison custody from 1999 to 2014.