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Self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales have risen by almost a quarter in the last year, with self-harm and assaults also on the rise, official data released by the Ministry of Justice reveals.
Liberty, along with over thirty organisations and individuals working on mental health, the criminal justice system, racial justice and civil liberties, has called for a rethink of the UK’s approach to responding to mental health crises.
As a new £15m grant for women s centres is announced, with the aim of stopping reoffenders, Cosmopolitan heads to Brighton Women s Centre to ask is it enough?