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I will focus on just a couple of cases to illustrate the point. The coroners’ court heard of one prisoner who took his own life at HMP Risley, 37 year-old Jason McQuoid, who did not eat or sleep for three days and begged for help after being put in one of those infamous segregation units that we discussed earlier. Jason’s family repeatedly warned that he was going to take his own life, but he still was not seen by any mental health clinician in the 72 hours before his death. No wonder they described his treatment as “medieval”.