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Prisons

  • Prisons
  • Independent investigations into incidents of serious self-harm and serious assaults in prison custody

Independent investigations into incidents of serious self-harm and serious assaults in prison custody

The Secretary of State for Justice commissions independent investigations into a small number of very serious incidents that occur in prisons, in accordance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In order to ensure an appropriate level of public scrutiny, the reports of these investigations and the plans setting out the action to be taken by HM Prison and Probation Service (and relevant partner organisations) in response to the recommendations are published here.

Article 2 cases

AD – Independent investigation conducted into the serious assault on ‘AD’ (updated March 2021)

JL – Investigation into the life-threatening self-harm of ‘JL’

AB – Independent investigation into the life-threatening attempted suicide of AB

Mr Quartz – Independent investigation into the life-threatening attempted suicide of Mr Quartz

AC – Independent investigation into the life-threatening attempted suicide of ‘AC’

WA – Independent investigation into the life-threatening self-harm of ‘WA’

Mr North – Independent investigation into the serious assault on ‘Mr North’

Mr Atlantic – Independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident that led to Mr Atlantic sustaining serious injuries

Mr Adakite – Independent investigation into the serious assault on ‘Mr Adakite’

AA – Investigation into the circumstances of AA’s attempted suicide

CR – independent investigation into the incident of life-threatening self-harm involving ‘CR’

DM – Independent investigation into an incident of life-threatening self-harm involving ‘DM’

HM – Independent investigation into an incident of serious assault involving ‘HM’

Mr Everest – Independent investigation into an incident of life-threatening self-harm involving ‘Mr Everest’

Mr Midland – Independent investigation into a life-threatening incident  involving ‘Mr Midland’

TA – Independent investigation into an incident of life-threatening self-harm involving ‘TA’

SP – Independent investigation in the case of ‘SP’