1/3 Deaths Among Prison Leavers in Wales Were Due to Drug Poisoning

1/3 deaths among prison leavers in Wales were due to drug poisoning

Over a third of all deaths among prison leavers in Wales were due to drug poisoning according to new Wales-specific justice data published by Cardiff University.

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More than a third of deaths of ex-prisoners in Wales drug related

Politicians are being urged to tackle "systematic failures" in the criminal justice system.

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David Bennett, from Wallich, Wales’s largest homelessness charity, claimed most drug-related deaths “are preventable if we treat drug use as a health, not criminal justice, issue”. “Housing, health and justice need a joined-up approach,” he said. He said the charity supported “conversations to devolve justice and policing” and said without “co-ordinated” support prison leavers were […] The post A third of deaths of ex-prisoners in Wales drug rel…

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Nation.Cymru staff More than a third of deaths among prison leavers under probation supervision in Wales involved drug poisoning, while hundreds of people were sleeping rough on release, a new report has found. Research by Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre questions whether Welsh Government support for people moving from custody into the community is “fit […]