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Record levels of prison violence and self-harm

Lamiat Sabin - 31 January 2019

Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon says the Tories' cuts to prison staff and budgets are ‘directly to blame’

VIOLENCE and self-harm in prisons have reached record high levels.

Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said government cuts to prison staff and budgets are “directly to blame” for the increases revealed in a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) report published yesterday.

Assaults went up by 20 per cent, with 33,803 incidents in the year to September compared with the previous 12 months, the MoJ figures show. Nearly 4,000 of those were recorded as serious... See more

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