“They'd all love me dead . . .”: The Investigation, Inquest, and Implications of the Death of Annie Kelly

Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. The writer discusses the investigation, inquest, and implications of the death of Annie Kelly in a strip cell in the punishment block of the Mourne House Women's Unit at Northern Ireland's high-security Maghaberry Prison in Septem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scraton, Phil (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: Social justice
Year: 2006, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 118-135
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Detention of persons
Inmates of institutions
Institutional care
Kelly, Annie
Maximum security prisons
Prisoners
Prisoners > Mortality
Prisons
Prison violence
Social Psychology
Suicidal behavior of prisoners
Treatment of prisoners
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Summary:Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. The writer discusses the investigation, inquest, and implications of the death of Annie Kelly in a strip cell in the punishment block of the Mourne House Women's Unit at Northern Ireland's high-security Maghaberry Prison in September 2002. He outlines the verdict of the coroner's inquest into her death and the response of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He asserts that collective responsibility for Annie Kelly's death goes beyond regimes and prisons to include the abject failure of mental health for girls and young women and the processes from care to custody that criminalize them: it extends to sentencing, lack of appropriate alternatives, and deficient aftercare on release.