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John Ferguson

Shock as 25 inmates at Scots prisons die by suicide as victim's family lawyer demands bosses face criminal sanctions

A shocking 25 inmates were found hanging in their cells in ­apparent suicides in Scotland’s prisons in just three years.

Five of them had not been convicted and were on remand.

The Sunday Mail can reveal a massive project was looked at in 2019 to ­implement ­suicide ­prevention measures in all cells in our publicly run jails at a cost of £155million.

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