Senior coroner sends report to ministers after inquest into how inmate Sheldon Jeans died at facility in 2022
Senior coroner sends report to ministers after inquest into how inmate Sheldon Jeans died at facility in 2022
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Ministers should draw up a specific policy to reduce inmate access to illicitly brewed alcohol and medication, a coroner has said, after the death of a vulnerable prisoner.
An inquest jury found last month that Sheldon Jeans, who was discovered dead in his cell at HMP Guys Marsh in November 2022, had died as a result of consuming illegal alcohol and four different medications that had not been prescribed to him, recording death by misadventure.
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