Manchester prison suicide rate slammed

A report of the 1,300-capacity jail revealed seven prisoners have taken their lives there in less than two years and two more prisoners have been found hanged in their cells after the inspectors’ visit.

Prisons inspectors also criticized staff at HMP Manchester jail for adopting “a degree of fatalism” towards deaths and accepting them as “the way things were in Manchester”.

Chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said, “The level of self-inflicted deaths has been too high for too long and should be no more accepted as an inevitable feature of the prison today than any of the other grim aspects of its past.”

Geoff Dobson, deputy director of the Prison Reform Trust campaign group, regarded the number of suicides at the prison since the start of 2009 as “a matter of great concern”, urging the prison staff to “move swiftly to learn the lessons of these tragic incidents”.

Furthermore, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, Michael Spurr, described a self-inflicted death as “a tragedy” for families, prisoners and prison staff.

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