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Self-Harm in Immigration Detention: January 2007 to December 2007

Categories: Resources:Asylum & Refugees | Published: 05/12/2009 | Views: 167
Obtained through a Freedom of Information Act 2000 request, the statistics show that in this period every 2.3 days a detainee self-harmed requiring medical treatment. The previous year 157 detainees were hospitalized after self-harming, 1,517 were put on 'Formal Self-Harm at Risk'

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