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<p>The Department publishes statistics concerning deaths in prison custody in England
and Wales in the quarterly Safety in Custody statistics. A spreadsheet containing
statistics on all deaths in custody up to December 2021 is available, in addition
to quarterly bulletins outlining trends, at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-september-2021"
target="_blank">Safety in custody: quarterly update to September 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>Those statistics are broken down by whether the death was self-inflicted, from
natural causes, or from other non-natural causes, or by homicide. They also show the
number of ‘awaiting further information’ cases where the cause of death cannot yet
be ascertained and remains under investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
or a coroner.</p>
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