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Mental Health and Deaths in Prison inquiry

Inquiry by the Human Rights (Joint Committee), 13 December 2016 to 13 December 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 22 February 2017: Juliet Lyon, Chair, Independent Advisory Panel, Lord Harris of Haringey, Frances Crook, Chief Executive, the Howard League for Penal Reform, and Rt Hon the Baroness Corston.
  • 8 March 2017: Mark and Donna Saunders, Clare Hobday Saunders, and Deborah Coles, Director, Inquest; Sheila Waplington, Marlene Danter, Deborah Coles, Director, Inquest, and Selen Cavcav, caseworker, Inquest (at 4.15pm).
  • 15 March 2017: Deborah Coles, Director, Inquest, Rt Hon the Lord Bradley, and Dr Andrew Forrester, Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry; Mike Rolfe, Chair, the Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, Andrea Albutt, President, Prison Governors Association, Mike Trace, Chief Executive, Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust, and Mark Johnson, User Voice (at 4.15pm).
  • 29 March 2017: Lord Farmer, Dr Eamonn O'Moore, Director, Health and Justice, Public Health England, and Director, UK Collaborating Centre, World Health Organisation, Dr Kate Paradine, Chief Executive, Women in Prison, and Catherine May, Head of External Affairs in Wales, Equality and Human Rights Commission.