“Prisoners at risk of suicide and self-harm should only be kept in segregation units in exceptional circumstances, yet the number of prisoners who killed themselves in these austere settings is at its highest level for nearly a decade,”, said Nigel Newcomen, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO).
Today, he published a new bulletin on lessons to be learned from PPO investigations into self-inflicted deaths of prisoners being held in segregation.
Download PPO’s Learning Lessons Bulletin Fatal Incidents Investigations Issue 8: Segregation.