Prison Services needs strategy for dealing with inmates with dementia, Ombudsman says

The Prison Service needs to develop a strategy to deal with the growing number of older prisoners so that staff can manage age-related conditions such as dementia better, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has said.  PPO Nigel Newcomen made this call as he published a bulletin on lessons that can be learned from investigations into deaths of prisoners with dementia.  Those aged over 60 are the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, increasing 125% between 2004 and 2014. The Ministry of Justice projects the population in prison aged over 60 to increase from 4,100 in 2015 to 5,500 in