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Prison suicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Allan House*
Affiliation:
The General Infirmary at Leeds, George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX
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Correspondence
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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