Prisoners: Suicide
(asked on 7th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners committed suicide in each of the last 10 years.
This question was answered on 10th July 2014
The number of self-inflicted deaths in prison custody for the last 10 years is published in the Safety in Custody statistical bulletin which is available at http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics.
We are working hard to manage the levels of self-harm in prison and are carefully investigating the rise in self-inflicted deaths.
We are applying strenuous efforts to learn from each one and providing further resources and support to prisons to help support their safer custody work.