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Shades of the prison house: the ghosts of suicides fill our prisons

Most inmates are mentally ill, but Chris Atkins is particularly haunted by the teenager, imprisoned for stealing sweets, who recently hanged himself in Wandsworth

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  • A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner

    Chris Atkins

    Atlantic Books, pp. 327, £16

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