Keeping safe

Juliet Lyon describes how inmates are suggesting ways to make jails more caring places

No one wants anyone to suffer the pain of suicide in prison and the terrible impact such a bleak death has on family, friends, fellow prisoners and prison staff. Everyone wants to turn back the rising tide of self-harm in our jails. And yet last year 113 men and twelve women took their own lives in custody in England and Wales and there were well over 40,000 incidents of self-harm – the worst figure ever recorded.

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