On 17 June 2024, the Deaths in Prison Custody: Action Plan - March 2024 Update was published. It’s useful to look at this alongside the Council of Europe’s annual penal statistics which were published on 5 June 2024. They showed that only 3 countries in Europe have a higher prison suicide rate than Scotland. The European median is 5.3 suicides per 10,000 prisoners. In England and Wales the rate is 9.3. In Scotland it’s 18.9.