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'We can't ask prisons to act as if they were hospitals'
A record number of prisoners killed themselves in jails in England and Wales last year.
New figures to be published next week are set to show a record number of prisoners killed themselves in jails in England and Wales last year.
Yesterday an inquest jury concluded Dean Saunders, an inmate who killed himself, was 鈥榣et down by a number of failings鈥� by the prison and by mental health services.
Juliet Lyon, Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody discusses what needs to be done with Charlotte Haworth-Hird the Solicitor representing the family of Dean Saunders.
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