Recommendation 22

We call on the Ministry of Justice to record the nationality of offenders— with Welsh provided as a separate identity to English—so that it can measure the number of self-harm incidents by nationality. We recognise that the Department may not be able to publish some of this data due to the risk of individuals being identified, however the data should still be collected so as to provide the Department with some clarity on the potential link between self-harm and distance from home. Additionally, we call on the Department to accelerate its work in reducing the costs of phone calls for both male and female prisoners and it should expand its collaboration with third sector partners who support Welsh families to visit relatives held in prisons in England. (Recommendation, Paragraph 79) Meaningful Sentences: Purposeful Activity, Education and Employment