Latest
- Chair and scope of Independent Review of Deaths in Police Custody announced: INQUEST response
Press releases, 20 October 2015 - Elish Angiolini QC to lead review into deaths in police custody
INQUEST in the media, 22 October 2015 - Chair of independent review into police custody deaths named
INQUEST in the media, 21 October 2015 - Scots lawyer to lead independent review into police custody deaths
INQUEST in the media, 21 October 2015 - INQUEST e-newsletter issue 30 (October 2015) published
Latest news, 20 October 2015 - Inquest into the the death of Carl Foot at HMP Pentonville begins today
Press releases, 20 October 2015 - Jury found neglect contributed to the death of 18 year old Connor Sparrowhawk
Press releases, 16 October 2015 - Deaths in police custody; Will British Home Secretary Theresa May’s inquiry end the culture of impunity?
INQUEST in the media, 13 October 2015
Benjamin Zephaniah
Stats Watch
22.10.15 Our casework team has opened 364 cases to date in 2015.
22.10.15 There have been 22 deaths involving the police in England & Wales this year to date, including 2 fatal police shootings.
21.10.15 There have been 185 deaths in prison this year, including 13 young people aged 18-24; 1 child aged 16; 69 self-inflicted deaths; and 3 homicides.
30.09.15 5 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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