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Prison suicides increase

01 March 1994

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The number of prison suicides rose to forty-six in 1993; this figure is five more than in 1992 and marks a return to the high prison suicide rates of the late 1980s. The figure has increased despite the introduction of Prison Service prevention programmes.

In Moorlands Prison, a young offenders institution in south Yorkshire, two teenagers have been found hanged in their cells within three days. The two suicides are the first of the new year.

Guardian, 7.1.94

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