Rise in jail assaults, self-harm and drug seizures signals crisis

Amadeo28 Jul, 2018Health

A spike in a series of assaults and incidents of self-harm in prisons, as good as an augmenting series of phones and drugs seized, has stirred uninformed warnings of a predicament in jails in England and Wales. Attacks in prisons strike a record 31,025 assaults in a year to March, roughly twice a 15,644 assaults