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An innovative study by User Voice, together with Queen’s University Belfast, has highlighted the impact of severe regime restrictions in prisons across England and Wales following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Juliet Lyon, chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAPDC) has today (Monday 18 July) written to the Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to request an urgent response to the current severe heat warning as it relates to the safety of people in custody.

‘It is time for a thorough review of the impact of extreme imprisonment on the mental and physical health of people detained by the state’, say independent government advisory panel and health and justice partners

The Public Appointments Team are looking for a new chair lead the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAPDC).

The IAPDC has today submitted a response to the Prisons Strategy White Paper.

The IAPDC has today published its mid-term report.

The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAPDC), in collaboration with National Prison Radio (NPR), undertook a project to gather views from people in prison on their feelings about – and concerns about – emerging from lockdown.

The IAPDC have published and distributed the winter edition of their newsletter to members of the Practitioner and Stakeholder Group (PSG).

The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody IAPDC) are looking for a new expert panel member to lead and embed work to reduce deaths in all forms of state custody.