Prison
Our prisons are increasingly unsafe
Prison Safety statistics to June 2023 show a 21% jump in self-harm (65% among women).
2nd November 2023
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Prison Safety statistics to June 2023 show a 21% jump in self-harm (65% among women).
Research into how confident probation staff feel about working with people at risk of suicide or self-harm.
HMPPS qualitative research finds out how some male prisoners have stopped harming themselves in prison.
MoJ research investigates ACCT procedures to try to prevent suicide and self-harm in prison.
Laura Pope explores the evidence base to help us tackle self-harm by adult male prisoners.
This litany of figures hides of course the distress and tragedy behind all these individual incidents for both prisoners and staff. For just as self-harm incidents have increased by over one fifth, serious assaults on staff are up by over two fifths.
