Four more prisoners serving indefinite jail terms described as “psychological torture” have taken their own lives in Britain’s prisons, The Independent can reveal, taking the total number of self-inflicted deaths to 94.
Experts have described the crisis as a “scandal that is being hidden in plain sight” and an “industrial-scale miscarriage of justice”, as prisoners trapped under abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) jail terms continue to take their own lives.
