Prisoners Needing Anti-Depressants
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/007664/Z
Version Date: 24/02/2025
The Professional Standards Department have provided the following information.
Please will you provide the following with separated information for the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025:
1. Any complaints you have received regarding prisoners being unable to access prescribed anti-depressant medication (for any length of time)
Data Source - Centurion
Complaints – National Factor “Custody” & “Arrest Custody”
Key word search for “Medication, Meds, Medicine, Anti-Depressants”
Please note that no information is recorded regarding the exact medication that each complaint relates to. The below figures are relating only about not being able to access precribed medication.
- 2021 - 9
- 2022 - 10
- 2023 - 9
- 2024 - 6
- 2025 (01/01/2025 – 28/01/2025) - 1
Any other awareness you have of prisoners being unable to access prescribed anti-depressants (e.g. those you are aware of through any other means than a complaint being made)
Nil return.
Which of these incidents were connected to the prisoner being transferred between prisons
Nil return.