Prisons: Child Suicides Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Child Suicides

Lord Elystan-Morgan Excerpts
Monday 29th July 2013

(11 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Elystan-Morgan Portrait Lord Elystan-Morgan
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My Lords—

Lord Bishop of Guildford Portrait The Lord Bishop of Guildford
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Would the Minister care to comment, in the light of the reports of HM Inspectorate of Prisons of May this year on the increased violence at Ashfield and Feltham—it is 10 years to this month since the Commission for Racial Equality produced its report on Feltham—on the desirability of the elimination of the use of batons and routine strip searches in juvenile prisons?