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- Deborah Coles, INQUEST Co-Director in post show discussion - This Heaven: Culture, Custody and Protest. 7.30 Monday 14 September 2015 Finborough Theatre
Latest news, 9 September 2015 - Family of Sean Rigg Welcomes Announcement on Cameras in Police Vans
Press releases, 28 July 2015 - New inquiry into deaths in police custody launched by Theresa May Home Secretary says review will look at use of restraint techniques and ‘ask difficult questions’
INQUEST in the media, 23 July 2015 - Theresa May to launch independent review of deaths in police custody
INQUEST in the media, 23 July 2015 - ‘Nothing more serious than somebody dying in police custody’
INQUEST in the media, 23 July 2015 - Independent Review into Deaths and Serious Incidents in Custody must be effective and lead to real change
Press releases, 23 July 2015 - Time for radical action on our failing prisons
INQUEST in the media, 17 July 2015 - ‘Grim, Bleak And Demoralising’
INQUEST in the media, 17 July 2015
Benjamin Zephaniah
Stats Watch
17.09.15 Our casework team has opened 327 cases to date in 2015.
16.09.15 There have been 159 deaths in prison this year, including 12 young people aged 18-24; 1 child aged 16; 59 self-inflicted deaths; and 3 homicides.
31.08.15 There have been 13 deaths involving the police in England & Wales this year to date, including one fatal police shooting.
10.08.15 3 women have died in prison in 2015.
09.08.15 There have been 2 deaths in immigration custody in 2015 so far.
29.01.15 in 2014 there were 242 deaths in prison; 83 were self-inflicted, including 14 young people aged 18-24.
02.01.15 There was one death in immigration custody and two deaths of immigration detainees held in prison in 2014.
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