INQUEST is a charity providing free advice to bereaved people facing an inquest, with a focus on deaths in custody. We work for truth, justice and accountability for families and for policy change at the highest level.
Latest
- Mental health charity Mind in call to end “face down” restraint of patients
INQUEST in the media, 19 June 2013 - Ministers consider ban on face-down restraint in mental hospitals
INQUEST in the media, 19 June 2013 - Use of physical restraint on mental health patients at ‘disturbing levels’
INQUEST in the media, 19 June 2013 - Why are vulnerable women still being jailed?
INQUEST in the media, 16 June 2013 - JURY RULES NEGLECT CONTRIBUTED TO DEATH OF ANDREW HALL AT HMP HOLME HOUSE
Press releases, 14 June 2013 - Police to get training about mental health
INQUEST in the media, 12 June 2013 - Letter: Torture, detention and ill-treatment past and present
INQUEST in the media, 7 June 2013
Benjamin Zephaniah
Stats Watch
3.06.13 We have just received notification of five natural causes deaths in prison at the end of May
1.06.13 Our casework team has opened 183 new cases so far this year
31.05.13 Two more police custody deaths in May. Brings total number to 5 in 2013
What
people say
‘The Prison Service should develop an information leaflet along the lines suggested, or require Governors to distribute the leaflet and Information Pack produced by INQUEST.’
– Stephen Shaw, former Prisons & Probation Ombusdman