Prison
Improving investigations into deaths in prison
Prisons and Probation Ombudsman should improve transparency in death investigations to improve prison safety
20th February 2023
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Prisons and Probation Ombudsman should improve transparency in death investigations to improve prison safety
Many natural deaths in prison should be avoided, say independent government advisory body and world’s largest nursing union.
INQUEST report exposing dangerous, longstanding failures across the prison estate and historically high levels of deaths in custody.
The new Justice Secretary Michael Gove has made much of the need to have an ethical criminal justice system. One step hemight take would be to make the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s recommendations legally enforceable.
