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Jail deaths figures shock mum

A grieving mother from the Shropshire border campaigning against conditions in women's prisons has called the latest figures on inmate deaths as "shocking". A grieving mother from the Shropshire border campaigning against conditions in women's prisons has called the latest figures on inmate deaths as "shocking". Former college lecturer Pauline Campbell, 59, from Malpas, has staged 26 protests since her daughter Sarah died of an overdose at Styal Prison, Cheshire, in 2003. The Ministry of Justice has released the latest figures. They show the number of inmates who killed themselves in prisons in England and Wales increased dramatically in 2007. There were a total of 92 "self-inflicted deaths" last year. The number of prisoners taking their own lives had previously appeared to be falling, with 67 in 2006, down from 78 in 2005 and 95 in 2004. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star

North Shropshire|Jan 2, 2008
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