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A young disabled woman has described the abuse she experienced in a charity-run mental health hospital, and has called for more to be done to close such long-stay institutions. Abigail Donohoe (pictured) spent more than six years in mental health hospitals […]
Ministers should be held accountable for the “extraordinary” rise in self-harm in prisons, including nearly 120 suicides last year, MPs and peers have been told. Members of the joint committee on human rights, who were hearing evidence from four prison reform […]