§ 59. Mr. Carol Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of suicides in penal establishments during the last 12 months and the names of those establishments; whether the prisoners were on remand or serving sentences; and, where the prisoners were 123W on remand, if he will give the nature of the offences with which they were charged and for which bail had been refused.
§ Miss Bacon22 in 1964. I give below the detailed figures but I regret that there is no central record of the information requested in the last part of the Question.
Number of suicides during the 12 month period ended 31 st December, 1964 Prisons 20 Borstals 2 Total 22 (All these were males) The establishments where the suicides took place, and whether the men were on remand or had been sentenced, are as follows:
Establishment Number On Remand Sentenced Bedford 1 — 1 Brixton 3 3 — Canterbury 1 1 — Chelmsford 1 — 1 Dorchester 1 — 1 Gloucester 1 1 — Hindley Borstal 1 — 1 Leicester 2 1 1 Lincoln 1 1 — Manchester 1 1 — Norwich 1 1 — Parkhurst 1 — 1 Pentonville 1 — 1 Reading Borstal 1 — 1 Stafford 2 — 2 Wandsworth 3 1 2 Total 22 10 12