Skip to main content
Gifts from The Morning Star
Cut prison use to cut suicides, review finds

FEWER people should be sent to prison to help cut the number of suicides, the head of a government review stated yesterday.

Labour’s Lord Harris, who was drafted in earlier this year to study how to reduce self-inflicted deaths in custody, said that resources were being stretched due to the number of individuals being jailed unnecessarily.

Prison suicides have risen by nearly 50 per cent since 2010, with 87 inmates taking their own lives in the 12 months to September, according to Ministry of Justice figures.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Britain / 24 March 2017
24 March 2017
Anti-racist and faith groups lead vigil for terrorist attack victims
Britain / 24 March 2017
24 March 2017
Britain / 11 March 2017
11 March 2017
Britain / 11 March 2017
11 March 2017