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Prison deaths at highest in over 10 years
267 died behind bars over the last year
PRISON deaths and suicides have reached their highest level for more than a decade, official figures showed yesterday.
Ministry of Justice statistics showed that 267 people died in prisons in England and Wales in the 12 months to the end of September 2015, 95 of them suicides and seven homicides.
In the 12 months before there were 234 deaths, 91 of which were suicides and three homicides.
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