Mar. 19 2024
Source Page: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2023Found: Prisoners serving an IPP or EPP sentence imposed on convict ion prior to 3 December 2012 continue to
Mar. 18 2024
Source Page: Supporting development of a self-harm strategy for Scotland, what does the qualitative evidence tell us?Found: the qualitative studies we identified explored the lived experience of other groups, such as men, prisoners
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many deaths have been recorded at HMP Wandsworth since 30 June 2023.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Deaths recorded by prison are published as part of our Safety in Custody statistics, updated quarterly, and available in the Deaths Data Tool at the following link: Safety in custody: quarterly update to September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Please note that deaths at Wandsworth are currently published from 30 June 2023 – end of December 2023. Figures to the end of March 2024 are not due for publication until April 2024 and cannot be released at this time.
Deaths in prison custody figures include all deaths of prisoners arising from incidents during prison custody. They include deaths of prisoners while released on temporary license (ROTL) for medical reasons but exclude other types of ROTL where the state has less direct responsibility.
In addition to deaths in prison custody which occur in hospitals, hospices or nursing homes, a small proportion will occur while in an ambulance on the way to hospital, while the prisoner is under escort.
Every death in custody is a tragedy and we continue to do all we can to improve the safety of prisoners.
We have implemented a revised version of the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) case management approach across the prison estate. Revisions in ACCT v6 include a stronger emphasis on taking a person-centred approach; better multi-disciplinary team working; a consistent quality assurance process and an improved focus on identifying and addressing an individual’s risks, triggers and protective factors.
We are implementing a new safety training package for staff. It brings together related safety topics, including suicide and self-harm prevention and understanding risks, triggers and protective factors.
We fund Samaritans through a grant providing total funding of just under £2 million between 2022 and 2025. This is primarily for the delivery of the Listener scheme (through which selected prisoners are trained to provide support to fellow prisoners in emotional distress).
We have also worked with Samaritans to develop a postvention response to providing support in the period following a self-inflicted death in order to reduce the risk of further deaths. This has been successfully piloted and the renewed grant includes funding for this service to be maintained until March 2025.
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: 1969 Assaulting a prison officer whilst possessing firearms90 – Criminal Justice Act 1991 Assisting prisoners
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: 1969 Assaulting a prison officer whilst possessing firearms90 – Criminal Justice Act 1991 Assisting prisoners
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: 1969 Assaulting a prison officer whilst possessing firearms90 – Criminal Justice Act 1991 Assisting prisoners
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: 1969 Assaulting a prison officer whilst possessing firearm s90 – Criminal Justice Act 1991 Assisting prisoners
Formal Minutes Mar. 14 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice relating to the Victims and Prisoners
Found: Several died by suicide . 18 This has been a long and complicated saga, stretching back over two decades
Mentions:
1: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) in such cases, as is possible for determinate sentence prisoners. - Speech Link
2: None As we have already heard, he committed suicide a short while after he wrote this. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) If you talk to any families of IPP prisoners, or IPP prisoners themselves, they know that they have been - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) addition, on the general point of hope and certainty and the very tragic case of Matthew, who committed suicide - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) That is quite a distinction from other prisoners. - Speech Link