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Monday, June 23, 2003 |
Scandal of self-harm in women's jails
Prison bosses have sent an emergency hit squad into a Manchester prison where five women have taken their lives in recent months, amid fears of an epidemic of self-harm and attempted suicides in Britain's female jails.
Women's prisons chief Niall Clifford took the unprecedented step of sending a specialist team into Styal prison, Cheshire, where four women had died since August. The fifth woman died as it began its work this month. Clifford told The Observer that a lethal cocktail of mental illness, drug addiction and overcrowding was making women's prisons increasingly difficult to govern.
Observer
8:42:33 AM 
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© Copyright 2003 Nick Page.
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Updated: 15/7/03; 2:15:57 pm.
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