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Self-harm and suicides on the rise in prisons, Ministry of Justice reveals
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TENS of thousands of prisoners are committing self-harm in jail, hundreds die in custody and dozens kill themselves, the latest findings from the Ministry of Justice showed today.
Prisons recorded 53,754 incidents of self-harm — a rate of one every 10 minutes — representing a 3 per cent increase in men’s prisons and 7 per cent in women’s prisons.
There were 288 deaths in custody, of which 66 were suicide, and 20,077 assaults — a 13 per cent rise
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