The parents of Katie Allan have slammed the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) after it emerged suicide rates have increased by 42 per cent since the introduction of a preventative scheme.Linda and Stuart Allan, whose daughter took her own life at Polmont in 2018, have hit out after a new report from Glasgow University found there have been 121 deaths in prison in Scotland since the start of 2022, with suicide and drugs deaths on the rise and the death rate higher than in England.Researchers found that from September 2020 to this year there were 29 deaths from suicide, 25 from drugs (with a further eight whose cause is undetermined), 15 to coronavirus, 42 attributed to 'other' causes such as medical conditions and two homicides.It compares to 98 deaths in Scottish prisons in the previous three full years.
Authors of the report acknowledged the impact of covid, however said the rise in suicide and drugs fatalities had been the most significant.The report states that suicides have increased by 42 per cent since the introduction of the SPS's preventative suicide strategy.Linda and Stuart Allan, who helped author the report, have raised questions around the efficacy of the SPS’s preventative suicide strategy called ‘Talk to Me’.
Linda said: "As with last year’s review, time and time again the Crown Office are not presenting systemic failures. From the narrow focus of individual cases where prisoners say they have no thoughts of self-harm and appear otherwise well to non-mental health professionals was sufficient for Sheriffs to conclude a person was at no risk of suicide, often despite many other markers of risk including previous attempts of suicide and recent life changing events."According to the report authors someone who was
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