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FOI response type: Information held

The total number of prison deaths that occurred while the individual was located in a segregation unit per calendar from 2021 to 2025

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FOI request 753 received on 7 May 2026 and 27 May 2026. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

The three English prisons with the highest number of self-inflicted deaths between 2016 to 2026 (excluding HMP Leeds), with annual breakdowns

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FOI request 747 received on 23 April 2026. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

A breakdown of the epilepsy deaths in Welsh prisons from the PPO’s Learning Lessons Bulletin on epilepsy deaths

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FOI request 743 received on 3 April 2026. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

To provide information on prisons in the United Kingdom with forty or more self-inflicted deaths in the last ten years, alongside their total

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FOI request 739 received on 30 March 2026. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

The number of people held in prison, either serving a sentence or on remand, who have died by suicide between 2016 to 2026, broken down by each prison in Yorkshire

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FOI request 735 received on 4 March 2026. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

The number of complaints received by the PPO from 1 January 2023 onwards by people held in immigration removal centres and in short-term holding facilities

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FOI request 734 received on 3 March 2026. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

The number of drug-related deaths in prisons in England and Wales from 2010 to 2025

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FOI request 733 received on 25 February 2026. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

The number of upheld complaints made to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) about accommodation from 2024 to 2025.

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FOI request 715 received on 28 November 2025. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

HMP Elmley prisoner deaths by year from 2010 to 2025

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FOI request 695 received on 1 October 2025. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.

Complaints to the PPO about inadequate access to sanitary products since 2020

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FOI request 693 received on 29 September 2025. The PPO holds this information, which is contained in the document.