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| Prisoner release checks 'put public at risk' - chief inspector | |
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| The safety of the public is being put at risk by thousands of prisoners being released without proper assessments, the government has been told. | The safety of the public is being put at risk by thousands of prisoners being released without proper assessments, the government has been told. |
| Peter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, also found suicides had risen by 15% in a year in England and Wales. | |
| In his 2018-19 annual report, Mr Clarke described the rising number of prisoner suicides and self-harm as a "scandal". | In his 2018-19 annual report, Mr Clarke described the rising number of prisoner suicides and self-harm as a "scandal". |
| He also found the response to the "deluge of drugs" in prisons had been "too slow" and "unsophisticated". | He also found the response to the "deluge of drugs" in prisons had been "too slow" and "unsophisticated". |
| In his report, Mr Clarke said thousands of prisoners who were potentially a "high risk of harm" to the public were being released "without a full risk assessment". | |
| An inmate's assessment should be regularly updated, he said, but sometimes there was no document at all or the paperwork was out of date, | |
| He added that the response to the problem, which had been raised repeatedly, had been "poor". | |
| There were 83 suicides in male prisons in 2018-19, an increase from 72 the previous year, the report said. | |
| Mr Clarke said levels of self-harm were "disturbingly high", rising in two thirds of the adult male prisons inspected. | |
| He suggested that it was time for an independent inquiry to tackle the "scandal" of people dying in state care in "preventable circumstances". |