Prison Deaths
Altcourse 2
Belmarsh 1
Birmingham 3
Blundeston 1
Bristol 3
Brockhill 1
Caldiff 4
Chelmsford 2
Dartmoor 1
Doncaster 5
Durham 2
Elmley 2
Exeter 1
Glen Parva 2
Hindley 1
Holloway 1
Hull 2
Kingston 1
Leeds 4
Lewes 2
Lincoln 2
Littehey 1
Liverpool 1
Low Newton 1
Maidstone 1
New Hall 1
Northallerton 1
Norwich 5
Nottingham 2
Parc 3
Preston 2
Reading 3
Shrewsbury 1
Stafford 1
Stocken 1
Wakefield 1
Wandsworth 2
Whitemoor 1
Winchester 5
Woodhill 2
Total 83
Source: HM Prison Service Awareness and Support Group 1998
Howarad League's research findings:
- 42 (31%) prisons and Wales were affected by the suicide of a prisoner;
- Three commercially managed prisons were affected by the self inflicted death of a prisoner - with 5 at Doncaster, 3 at parc and 2 at Altcourse;
- Two-thirds of prisoners taking their own lives were unsentenced;
- Nine youngsters aged 18 or under, including one 16 year old, took their life in prison, as did three women; and
- 11% of the daths were prisoners from Black or Asian communities
Source: The Howard League for Penal Newsletter, o4 January 1999, http://web.ukonline.co.uk/howard.league
Table and Graphs
Table 1
Prisoners per 100.000 inhabitants in selected industrialized countries
USSR 660
USA 280-330
Poland 220-300
DDR 222
Bulgaria 150
Czechoslovaki 142
Austria 118
Yugoslavia 101
BDR 100
Finland 99
England 86
Denmark 68
Sweden 49
Norway 44
The Netherlands 23
Nils Christie «Punishment» in A. Kuper and J. Kuper (eds.). The Social Science Encyclopaedia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.