
Campaigners have demanded that an independent review of the youth secure estate takes place after the fifth apparent suicide of a teenager in custody in five weeks.
Seventeen-year-old Ryan Clark was found hanging in his cell at Wetherby young offenders' institution (YOI) in Yorkshire on 18 April. The five suicides of young offenders already this year is as high as in any entire year since 2005.
Clark's death follows the suicides of Mahry Rosser, 19, at New Hall YOI on 17 April; Nicholas Saunders, 18, at Stoke Heath YOI on 2 April; Trevor Llambias, 18, at Bedford Prison on 28 March; and Nicholas Wheller, 19, at Aylesbury YOI, also in March.
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