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One evidential marker of this relates to recent revelations that four out of 10 prisoners who have taken their own lives in custody in recent years did so because they were denied adequate healthcare before their death. Here I give huge credit to the journalism of Amy-Clare Martin of the Independent. Amy has recently exposed the scale of neglect, showing that 104 out of 233 self-inflicted deaths investigated by the prisons watchdog between 2020 and 2023 show failings in mental health care in jails.