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Forty-Five Deaths in Prison Last Year Still Have No Cause

The Ministry of Justice logs every death in prison custody, and for 45 of them in 2024 the cause is still recorded as unknown. A year earlier, only 10 sat in that category. Here's what that jump actually tells you.

2026-08-24T12:08:52.884484 · Ministry of Justice
45 Deaths awaiting classification, 2024
10 Same figure for 2023
+350% Year-on-year change
Government

The Spending Files Nobody Has Touched Since August 2013

Departments must publish everything they spend over £25,000. Eleven of sixteen spending datasets on data.gov.uk are behind, and the worst of them were last updated in the summer of 2013.

2026-08-24T12:08:00.297301 · data.gov.uk