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UK: Seventh prisoner commits suicide

01 March 1992

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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.

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