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![Private Eye article text:
Headline: Failure to ACCT
Article: Overstretched prison staff have become "hardened" to incidents of self-harm at a women's prison with one of the worst death records in the country, a coroner has warned.
HMP Styal in Cheshire has the highest number of deaths of any prison and accounts for almost half the deaths on the female prison estate, a recent inquest into the death of inmate Sarah Boyle in July 2024 heard.
A prevention of future deaths (PFD) report by coroner Victoria Davies to the Ministry of Justice highlights weaknesses in HMP Styal's assessment, care in custody and teamwork (ACCT) process - the care planning system for prisoners identified as being at risk of suicide or self-harm. The report also flagged evidence that staff at the prison were alarmingly blasé about the risk of self-harm.
Sarah's death came just months after Davies was assured by the prison service that mental health provision at Styal had been boosted, during the inquest into the suicide of Annelise Sanderson (Eye 1616), who was jailed rather than referred for treatment after assaulting a paramedic who intervened when she drank petrol and threatened to set herself on fire.
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