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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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