INQUEST, report, 10 deaths, each week, release from prison, women, suicide, General Election 2019, political parties, commitment, actionThe silence, inaction and institutional indifference must end.

In 2018/19, ten people died each week following release from prison. Every two days, someone took their own life.

In the same year, one woman died every week, and half of these women’s deaths were self-inflicted.

Deaths have been rising for a number of years, coinciding with the introduction of the Offender Rehabilitation Act in 2014.

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