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Mental health
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Driven to mental ill-health: The 233 IPP prisoners in secure hospitals

Indefinite IPP sentences caused severe psychological harm, with many prisoners transferred to secure hospitals but facing return to prison without release dates.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Mahmood and Lammy breached human rights law over segregation of prisoner, judge finds

In the context of a prisoner who has a history of trauma and where there was a failure to obtain an assessment of his needs even though he was known to have mental health issues, and a failure to provide him with any therapeutic treatment to address his trauma, a contravention of article 3 is made out, notwithstanding the importance of the aim behind the segregation regime.
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