Observer letters: Centre for Mental Health and Howard League call for urgent action to prevent further loss of life in prisons
This World Suicide Prevention Day, we’re calling on Government to take urgent action to prevent further loss of life.
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Preventing prison suicide
Prison deaths through suicide have risen at an alarming rate. We’re working to prevent future tragic losses of life.
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Meeting us where we’re at
Our evaluation of three projects developed by MAC-UK, working with excluded young people
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Preventing prison suicides: staff perspectives
Suicides in prison in 2016 were the highest since records began. Our latest briefing explores the factors behind this.
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Prisons need profound culture change to prevent loss of life from suicide, says report from Centre for Mental Health and Howard League for Penal Reform
The fourth briefing highlights the perspectives of prison staff
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Immigration Removal Centres need to focus on detainees’ mental health and wellbeing, says new report
The Centre launches new research into the mental wellbeing of immigration detainees
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Immigration Removal Centres in England
We analysed the mental health needs of people detained in Immigration Removal Centres
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Thinking ahead – early action and traumatic brain injury
How early action in addressing traumatic brain injury could have huge social and economic benefits
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2016 becomes worst year ever recorded for suicides in prisons
Over 100 people lost their lives through suicide in prisons in England and Wales so far this year. Centre for Mental Health and Howard League for Penal Reform publish new research on how to make jails safer.
Type: News
Supporting women in the criminal justice system
Jenny Talbot OBE reflects on the needs of women in the criminal justice system, and the role of local authorities in supporting them.
Type: Blog