Reports
- ONS: Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody in England and Wales 2008-2016
- Talk to me: Prevention of Suicide Strategy 2016-2021
- The Butler Trust: The Good Book of Prisons
- University of Nottingham: Suicides in prisons review – September 2020
- NICE: Preventing suicide in community and custodial settings – 10 September 2018
- Health and Social Care Committee: Prison health – 1 November 2018
- PPO: Learning lessons reports
- National Study of Self-Inflicted Death by Prisoners – University of Manchester, Department of Health and Social Care and NOMIS – January 2013
- INQUEST: Preventing the deaths of women in prison – June 2013
- PPO: Learning lessons bulletin – fatal incidents investigations – February 2016 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- Howard League for Penal Reform: The cost of prison suicide – 2016 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- Howard League for Penal Reform: Preventing prison suicide -perspectives from the insides – 2016 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- National Audit Office: Mental health in prisons – 29 June 2017 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- Suicide in prisons: an international study of prevalence and contributory factors – December 2017
- Howard League for Penal Reform: Preventing prison suicide -staff perspectives – 2017
- Advice on self-inflicted deaths and self-harm at HMP Woodhill, Stephen Shaw – 2017
- The British Journal of Psychiatry: Suicides in female prisoners in England and Wales, 1978–2004 – 2 January 2018 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- A review of self-inflicted deaths in prison custody in 2016 – October 2018 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- Prison suicides: What happens afterwards? – November 2018 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- Suicide & self-harm prevention in prison: a summary of evidence relating to suicide and self harm in prison and how services can identify and support those at risk – 15 May 2019 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- Office for National Statistics: male prisoners are 3.7 times more likely to die from suicide than the public – 25 July 2019 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- PRT, Pact and INQUEST joint report: Keeping people safe in prison – 2019 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- INQUEST: Deaths in prison – a national scandal – 22 January 2020 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- Managing prisoner safety in custody: PSI 64/2011 – 27 January 2020 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- MOJ/NOMS: Quick-time learning bulletin – safer cells – December 2020
- Prison Populations – 15 December 2020 (link opens as PDF in new window)
- NPCC: National Strategy for Police Custody (link opens as PDF in new window)
Research
- General practitioner contributions to achieving sustained healthcare for offenders: a qualitative study – 2 February 2018 (link opens in new window)
- Nuffield Trust: How prison health care in England works – 22 October 2021 (link opens in new window)
- Oxford Academic: Safer cell design (link opens as GIF in new window)
- British Journal of Psychiatry: Suicide by prisoners: National clinical survey – Jenny Shaw, Denise Baker, Isabelle M. Hunt, Anne Moloney and Louis Appleby – 2004 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- Oxford Academic: The epidemiology and prevention of suicide by hanging: a systematic review David Gunnell, Olive Bennewith, Keith Hawton, Sue Simkin, Nav Kapur – January 2005 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- National Study of Self-Inflicted Death by Prisoners collaborative study: University of Manchester -Jenny Shaw, Verity Wainwright, Roger Webb, Louis Appleby; Department of Health -Mary Piper; National Offender Management Service -Jenny Rees, Ron Elder – 2008-2010 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- The British Journal of Psychiatry: Psychiatric disorders in male prisoners who made near-lethal suicide attempts: case–control study – Adrienne Rivlin, Keith Hawton, Lisa Marzano and Seena Fazel – 2010
- Psychosocial influences on prisoner suicide: A case-control study of near-lethal self-harm in women prisoners – Lisa Marzano, Keith Hawton, Adrienne Rivlin, Seena Fazel – 4 February 2011
- A National Study of Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prison Custody in England and Wales from 1999 to 2007 – The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness – April 2011 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- The Lancet Psychiatry: suicide in prisons: an international study of prevalence and contributory factors – Prof. Seena Fazel, MD Taanvi Ramesh, MSc Prof Keith Hawton, FMedSci – December 2017 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- Impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on reoffending – 18 July 2019 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- CPS: Deaths in Custody – updated April 2020 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- BMJ Journals: Managing outbreaks of highly contagious diseases in prisons: a systematic review – Gabrielle Beaudry, Shaoling Zhong, Daniel Whiting, Babak Javid, John Frater, Seena Fazel – 16 November 2020 (link opens as PDF in a new window)
- The Lancet: Risk factors for suicide in prisons: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Shaoling Zhong MBBSa, Morwenna Senior MBBS, Rongqin Yu PhD, Amanda Perry PhD, Prof Keith Hawton FMedSci, Prof Jenny Shaw PhD, Prof Seena Fazel – February 2021 (link opens as PDF in a new window)