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Custody death rate 'shocks' MPs

PUBLISHED December 14, 2004
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Deaths in custody have reached "shocking" levels, a committee of MPs and peers has warned.

The joint committee on human rights found those committing suicide were mainly the most vulnerable, with mental health, drugs or alcohol problems.
Members urged the government to set up a task force to tackle deaths in prisons, police cells, detention centres and special hospitals.

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