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Seventh prisoner commits suicide

01 January 1991

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Seventh prisoner commits suicide
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A 20 year old remand prisoner found hanged in Glen Parva young
offenders unit became the seventh prisoner to commit suicide in
Britain this year. This has raised concern among pressure groups
and probation officers that suicide prevention programmes in
jails are not working. Harry Fletcher, the Assistant General
Secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers,
said: `The Home Office has issued plenty of sound guidance on
suicide prevention in recent months. But it is having little
impact because conditions that contribute towards deaths in
custody, such as overcrowding and under-resourcing, remain the
same.'
This latest custodial death has prompted the Howard League to
write to the Home Secretary and to urge him to release young
people on remand `as a life-saving measure'. The League
concluded: `The death of yet another young man is an indelible
stain on the conscience of the government.' Independent, 5.2.92.

Statewatch Vol 2 No 2 March/April 1992

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