Two-thirds of remand prisoners who took own lives were on care plans, FoI reveals – 65.7% of remand prisoners in England and Wales who died by self-inflicted means were on suicide or self-harm watch
Two-thirds of remand prisoners who took own lives were on care plans, FoI reveals – 65.7% of remand prisoners in England and Wales who died by self-inflicted means were on suicide or self-harm watch
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I get frustrated by this kind of journalism, simply representing a (cherry picked for clicks) FOI request and not critically assessing what the facts say (or don’t say).
So of the prisoners who took their lives, two thirds were on a care plan. What does that actually say? To me that sounds like the processes to identify vulnerable people is working somewhat. Would it have been better or worse if the percentage was higher or lower?
Do the care plans stop suicides? That’s the most important thing here. We’d need to know about all the people who did not commit suicide whilst on a plan to make that assessment (the article doesn’t bother to ask this at all, and ignores the prison services’ quote in the final paragraph that hints at this).