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The suicide rate among people in pretrial custody is double that of convicted prisoners
The second part of our latest collaborative investigation found that in Europe there were 17.5 suicides per 10,000 people in pretrial detention in 2021, while the proportion was 8.54 deaths in the rest of the prison population.
- In 2021, 480 people committed suicide in EU member state prisons, of which 172 were in pretrial detention.
- Czechia (51 suicides per 10,000 people in pretrial detention), Latvia (50.3), Austria (47.3) and France (43.1) had the highest pretrial prison suicide rates.
- Pre-trial detention is an uncertain wait during which people do not know when they will appear before the judge or when the arrest warrant might be cancelled. They must also adapt overnight to a different environment and living with strangers.
- This is compounded by the lack of control over their own life suddenly suffered by many people awaiting trial.
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