UK. Report: Unlocking the evidence: Understanding suicide in prisons
UK. Report: Unlocking the evidence: Understanding suicide in prisons
People in prison are significantly more likely to die by suicide than people in the general population.
In 2018 alone, there were 92 self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales. At Samaritans, we see the enormous scale of emotional distress in prisons – last year alone we provided emotional support to people in prison more than 300,000 times. We also see the wide range of concerns that underpin their distress.
Our report, Unlocking the evidence: Understanding suicide in prisons, brings together data from the Samaritans service with analysis of the wider literature on suicide in prisons. The report deepens out understanding of the reasons behind the high rate of suicide in prisons. (Samaritans, UK, 2019)
https://www.samaritans.org/documents/468/Samaritans_PrisonsDataReport_2019_Final.pdf