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In this section you will find links to information on custody deaths and abuse in the United Kingdom.
The information is broken down by category for easy reference. Items are updated, replaced or deleted periodically.
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Police – deaths/abuses in custody:
| Headline / Subject | Source / Link |
|---|---|
| A case to answer on the use of restraint | Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism |
| Acting with Impunity: beat goes on | Source: TELEPOLIS (URL Link/pdf's) |
| Armed and Dangerous The police with their fingers on the trigger | Source: Guardian Archives |
| Black deaths: still fighting for justice in the UK | Source: openDemocracy |
| Can the police be reformed? | Source: Socialist Review |
| Closed Shop - Are the police unaccountable for their actions? | Source: Police Federation |
| Community Sentencing - Crime and justice | Source: Direct.gov |
| Court Sentences | Source: TheSite.org |
| Corporate homicide law extended to prisons and police cells | Source: The Guardian |
| Deaths during or following police contact | Source: The IPCC |
| Deaths in Police Custody | Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism |
| 'Deaths in custody' corporate manslaughter crime created | Source: BBC News |
| Feeling passionately about custody deaths | Source: 4WardEver Members Voice |
| IAP publish statistical analysis of all recorded deaths: 2000-2010 | Source: IAP |
| IAP publishes the report on its second family listening day | Source: IAP |
| IPCC publishes first part of 'Corruption in the Police Service in England and Wales' Report | Source: The IPCC |
| If you are anti police brutality does that mean you are anti police? | Source: A.D. Largie |
| Let there be justice for those who have died in police custody | Source: The Guardian |
| New report calls for more effective learning from death in custody inquests | Source: INQUEST |
| No convictions over 500 black and Asian deaths in custody | Source: The Guardian |
| Police killings and the law | Source: International Socialism |
| Victims of fatal police shootings | Source: TimesOnline |
| Why did their loved ones die in custody? | Source: The Guardian |
| Why there will be more deaths in custody | Source: New Statesman |
| When ignorance is never bliss | Source: The Guardian |
Detention – deaths and abuses in prison & psychiatric custody:
| Headline / Subject | Source / Link |
|---|---|
| Britain is failing young people in custody | Source: The Guardian |
| Choking to death: should we stop sending women to prison? | Source: New Statesman |
| Death in prison custody 2011 published | Source: IAP |
| Hundreds die in 'hidden world' of mental hospitals | Source: The Guardian Weekly |
| Hundreds die yearly in care | Source: Morning Star |
| Independent Inquiry into the death of David Bennett | Source: The Guardian |
| Mental health and police custody | Source: The IPCC |
| When innocent men go to jail: miscarriages of justice in Britain | Source: The Telegraph |
| Why London's YOI is one of the scariest prisons in Britain | Source: The Independent |
| Women shouldn't be forced to seek refuge inside a prison | Source: Politics.co.uk |
General & Legal – issues of interest:
| Headline / Subject | Source / Link |
|---|---|
| A brief history of capital punishment in Britain | Source: History Extra |
| Black Deaths in Custody | Source: IRR News Network |
| CCTV revamp bolsters custody suite operation for West Midlands Police | Source: IFSEC Global |
| Call for all casualties of conflict to be properly recorded | Source: Bureau of Investigative Journalism |
| Capital Punishment in England in the 18th Century | Source: Local Histories |
| Capital Punishment 1969: MPs vote to abolish hanging | Source: BBC On This Day |
| Filming INJUSTICE Interview with maker Ken Fero | Source: The Multicultural Politic |
| Justice on Trial | Source: The Guardian |
| MoJ publish report under Rule 43 of the Coroners Rules | Source: IAP |
| MPs defeat Blair over deaths in custody | Source: National Nine News |
| Outsourcing abuse | Source: Medical Justice |
| Police Street Triage national evaluation report (2016) 1st evaluation of schemes in the UK | Source: 4WardEver Library |
| The Innocence Squad | Source: Times Online |
| The Right to Know | Source: Liberty Guide to Human Rights |
| Until you fight, change never happens | Source: IRR News Network |
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