Deaths in custody, including police custody, are subject to great concern for a number of reasons, including the intrinsically vulnerable nature of some of those in custody, and the power imbalance inherent in the situation
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Statistics
Deaths in police custody, by calendar year in England and Wales:
Child deaths
There has never been a child death in a secure home, whereas there have been in both STCs and YOIs. Between 1990 and 2004, 25 children killed themselves in prison and two died in secure training centres.
References
UK deaths in custody Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA