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| Men in British prison a higher suicide risk |
| By Alternative Press |
| Published: 09/19/2005 |
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Imprisoned young offenders aged 15 to 17 were a massive 18 times more likely to take their own lives than youngsters outside, a study revealed in the Lancet medical journal. A team led by Dr. Seena Fazel from Oxford University made the conclusions after studying jail suicide from 1978 to 2003, a total of 1,312 deaths. Dr Fazel said: "We have shown that during the past quarter of a century, suicide in male prisoners in England and Wales has been about five times more common than in the general male population of similar ages.Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon said: "The revelations of this thorough-going study are shattering. These stark findings should prompt questions not only about the continuing failure of suicide prevention in British prisons but most of all they should make us ask why the most vulnerable, mentally ill people are still being locked up in bleak, overcrowded institutions run by untrained, hard-pressed staff and held, in conditions which are bound to make them worse not better. |
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