A Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody has just been established, hence the profiling of the issue. The presenter registered that, last year alone, there had been some 600 deaths in prison, police, immigration and hospital custsody. This was followed by the voice of a mother whose young son had, tragically, died in youth custody. Two of the key issues she raised were the very limited training given to those who work in the institutions where her son had committed suicide, and the precipitous use of restraint techniques.
The subsequent debate between the professional and the politician, mediated (if that is the right word) by the presenter, took the usual form.
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