Self-harm in prisons reaches new record high for the seventh year running
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.
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