Learning and research documents

This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines complaints about the way prisons handle legal and confidential letters.

This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines deaths of prisoners where the use of ‘NPS’ type drugs was suspected.

This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines learning from investigations into the self inflicted deaths of prisoners being held in segregation conditions at the time of death.

The aim of this research was to find out why these groups are under-represented in the complaints we receive and to identify any relevant learning.

This bulletin looks at the self-inflicted deaths of prisoners from 2013 - 2014

This learning lessons bulletin is one of a number that my office is producing on minority groups in prison. It looks at issues identified in my fatal incident investigations into both self-inflicted and natural cause deaths and highlights learning points for prisons.

Learning from PPO complaints relating to maintaining family ties with prisoners.

This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines learning from investigations into the self-inflicted deaths of 18 to 24 year old prisoners.

This thematic report focuses on learning about risk factors for suicide from my independent investigations into self-inflicted deaths in prisons.

This thematic report describes learning from investigations into fatal incidents where the prisoner was being monitored under the Prison Service suicide and self-harm prevention procedures at the time of their apparently self-inflicted death.