Learning and research documents

This Learning Lessons Bulletin explores the experience of prisoners with dementia, and the challenges facing prisons in providing them with appropriate care and support.

This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines the use of force on prisoners by prison staff.

This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines the self-inflicted deaths of prisoners within the first month of custody.

This report is a thematic review covering prisoner mental health.

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.