During a Home Affairs Select Committee meeting on the work of the Home Office last week, Nick Herbert, the Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs, asked Charles Clarke if he would accept that overcrowding is linked to suicide, and what he is doing to address the problem, particularly in relation to young people.
Clarke said: I think the core is the strategic focus on each individual offender. It is the case that the more crowded the prison population is, the less easy it is to apply that strategy to each offender. But I think it would be too simplistic to say that there is a linear relationship between some measure of overcrowding and prison suicides. It is one of a series of factors that operate in that situation.
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