Prison suicides are soaring. More inmates should be trained to prevent this, as I was | Jonathan Aitken

With Osborne’s legacy of a 30% cut, staff cannot cope with the crisis. It would cost little to save lives by empowering prisoners and working with charities• Jonathan Aitken is a former Tory MP who served a prison sentence for perjuryThe soaring suicide and self-harming rates in our prisons are reaching crisis levels. Last week’s National Audit Office report confirmed this: in 2016 there were a record 120 self-inflicted prison deaths – a doubling of the number within four