83% spike in inmate deaths prompts MPs to demand answers from DCS

Parliament will haul the Department of Correctional Services before MPs next week to explain why unnatural deaths in prisons have surged and what consequences, if any, have followed where negligence, violence or management failures are suspected. The intervention follows figures from the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (Jics) showing that 44 unnatural deaths were recorded in the…