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Vulnerable prisoners inside one of the country’s most overcrowded prisons are being put at risk, a watchdog has warned, after 16 self-inflicted deaths in three years.
HMP Leeds recorded the highest number of suspected suicides of any adult men’s prison in England and Wales between 2022 and 2025.
Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor found weaknesses in care on arrival, unacceptable delays in transfers to hospital under the Mental Health Act and insufficient day-to-day support is leaving prisoners
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