In Britain, a jail sentence is often a death sentence. What's going on in our prisons? | Deborah Coles and Jessica Pandian

Last year, 371 people died behind closed doors. We want justice for them - and an end to a cruel, complacent system Deborah Coles is the executive director of Inquest; Jessica Pandian is a policy and research officer Britain has the most draconian prison system in western Europe. Recent deaths in police custody have increased public consciousness of state violence and its relationship to institutional racism and sexism. And yet we are still often oblivious to the inherently harmful and too often...