From Mad in Puerto Rico: “In England’s prisons lost almost 150,000 working days last year due to mental health problems, an increase of 44% since 2019.” In this report investigated by Eve Webster, Jonathan Fagg and Ema Sabljak for BBC News, the circumstances behind the mental health absences among people who work in prisons in England are explored. The people interviewed report that the working conditions within the prisons are devastating and that the level of trauma to which they are exposed is substantial. Likewise, the report does not present the imprisoned people as the cause of these violences, but points out how prisons are poorly designed, with a serious lack of support for both staff and imprisoned people.
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