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                                        Howard League Blog
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Press releases
- 119 people died by suicide in prisons in England and Wales last year
 - Howard League responds to Cookham Wood prison inspection
 - Howard League responds to Hewell prison inspection
 - Cardiff prison: Easy to find drugs, harder to find clean clothes and bedding
 - Howard League responds to Onley prison inspection
 - 2016 becomes worst year ever recorded for suicides in prisons
 - Failing prisons resort to draconian punishments as crisis behind bars deepens
 - Howard League responds to watchdog’s report on children in custody
 - Ten years after The Corston Report, is this the end of successful women’s centres?
 - Howard League responds to prison reform proposals
 
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