Prisoners: Suicide

(asked on 2nd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners and what proportion of the prison population have killed themselves in each of the last 20 years.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
This question was answered on 9th March 2015

Data on deaths in custody, including the numbers and rates of self-inflicted deaths in each of the last 20 years, is published in the Safety in Custody Statistics Bulletin, available at www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-in-custody-statistics.

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