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Release:Drug related deaths and suicides in prison custody

Contact:
Jasveer Kaur, Beth Manders and Ben Windsor-Shellard

Release date:
25 July 2019 09:30

Next release:
To be announced

Analysis of drug-related deaths and suicides in England and Wales, 2008 to 2016.

Publications

Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody in England and Wales: 2008 to 2016

The risk of suicide and drug-related deaths among prisoners, based on confidential matching of data from HM Prison and Probation Service and Office for National Statistics mortality records.

Data

Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody

Analysis of the risk of suicide and drug-related deaths among prisoners, including the number of deaths, standarised mortality ratios and age-standardised rates, England and Wales, 2008 to 2019.