The Ministry of Justice has today (26 July 2018) released the latest statistics on safety, deaths and self-harm in custody. The data shows that levels of self-harm and violence in prison con... Read more
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said three people died after being held in a police cell, and another five died after being held in a cell, becoming unwell and then being pr... Read more
Previous research by Agenda, as part of its Women in Mind mental health campaign, showed one in five women and girls were physically restrained in mental health units. Younger women made up... Read more
Everybody has “mental health”, but far too many of us have mental health problems. For many years this has existed in a twilight zone, both in society in general and the NHS in particular. Read more
The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody has published statistical report into deaths in custody – covering the period to March 2018. The report also gives information about incid... Read more
Custody is a very locked-down affair. People who have been arrested spend most of the time isolated in their cells. But custody visitors often are neither respected by the police nor trusted... Read more
INQUEST has today released Still Dying on the Inside: Examining Deaths in Women’s Prisons. The report highlights the lack of action from successive governments and puts forward recommendatio... Read more
The scale of deaths of black people after contact with the police is so high that even United Nations human rights experts and agencies have felt the need to speak out on the issues. Read more
