SELF-HARM in prisons has hit record high levels for a seventh year running, with fears that incidents have risen even further during the Covid-19 crisis. 

New figures from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published today laid bare the “perilous” state of jails in Britain with 64,552 recorded incidents of self-harm between March 2019 to 2020. 

This was an increase of 11 per cent compared with the previous year, while self-harm in youth prisons also increased during the same period by 51 per cent.