Deaths in state detention reported to coroners, England and Wales
Deaths in state detention reported to coroners in England and Wales each year since 2011, by type of detention, from prison and police custody to detention under the Mental Health Act, with the deaths of people recently released from custody, from the Ministry of Justice's coroners statistics.
Deaths in state detention
601
2025
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:49 UTC- Prison Custody
- Police Custody
- Immigration Removal Centres
- Mental Health Act detention
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Secure Training Centre
- Local Authority Secure Children's Homes
- Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL)
- State Detention Total
- Release from Custody within last 7 days
- Residents of Probation Approved Schemes
- Others Total
- OVERALL TOTAL
Source: Ministry of Justice. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
15 periods, newest first
| Period | Prison Custody | Police Custody | Immigration Removal Centres | Mental Health Act detention | Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards | Secure Training Centre | Local Authority Secure Children's Homes | Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) | State Detention Total | Release from Custody within last 7 days | Residents of Probation Approved Schemes | Others Total | OVERALL TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 392 | 23 | 0 | 183 | – | 0 | 0 | 3 | 601 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 619 |
| 2024 | 362 | 16 | 4 | 151 | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 535 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 549 |
| 2023 | 309 | 20 | 3 | 147 | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 481 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 492 |
| 2022 | 300 | 12 | 1 | 193 | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 507 | 21 | 6 | 27 | 534 |
| 2021 | 373 | 18 | 1 | 170 | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 567 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 580 |
| 2020 | 318 | 8 | 0 | 219 | – | 0 | 0 | 6 | 551 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 562 |
| 2019 | 299 | 14 | 2 | 144 | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 464 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 478 |
| 2018 | 316 | 15 | 0 | 171 | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 504 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 514 |
| 2017 | 293 | 19 | 7 | 196 | 3,912 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4,434 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4,440 |
| 2016 | 298 | 10 | 1 | 252 | 11,376 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11,939 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 11,950 |
| 2015 | 261 | 11 | 1 | 188 | 7,183 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7,645 | 17 | 5 | 22 | 7,667 |
| 2014 | 220 | 10 | 4 | 100 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | 336 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 352 |
| 2013 | 155 | 12 | 2 | 97 | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 268 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 281 |
| 2012 | 152 | 9 | 1 | 93 | – | 0 | 0 | 6 | 261 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 281 |
| 2011 | 185 | 22 | 3 | 83 | – | 0 | 0 | 4 | 297 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 321 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Justice
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 29 October 2026, 11:47 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2025SHA-256 80dd800b05ea748c35432448d4f8d7642f320d6279f327d52a9d1d921be8c117 · 18,361 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ad611aa67af5c09d04797f4/Coroners_Statistics_Annual_2025_Tables.odsSHA-256 c9699ffae939a044feac5d528aeed128d6d273271998e36976992c53da6c7fa5 · 114,057 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:49 UTC Run at 29 October 2026, 11:49 UTC; 195 of 195 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Justice; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-29T11:47:12Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 195 of 195 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 195 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 195 of 195 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025 ended 302 days before retrieval (limit 560), from Coroners statistics 2025: England and Wales (statistical tables) |
| Pass | The types add up to the MoJ's totals | in 30 of 30 cases the types of detention sum to the whole within 0 (30 exactly) |
| Pass | The release's CSV agrees, its areas added up by year | 135 of 135 figures agree with coroners-statistics-2025-csvs/coroners-statistics-2025-csv-inc-less-inv.csv in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ad615e30f7b53973e026902/coroners-statistics-2025-csvs.zip, its areas added up by year |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Accredited official statistics from the returns each coroner area makes to the Ministry of Justice for the calendar year. A death a coroner does not know to have been in state detention, or records under another type of establishment, is not counted here, so the figures can differ a little from other sources: HM Prison and Probation Service's safety in custody statistics are the official count of deaths in prison custody.
- Deaths under a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards order were collected only from 2015 to 2 April 2017, after which the law no longer counted them as state detention; the prison custody and immigration removal centre figures include some deaths outside England and Wales.
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- The MoJ marks 2024 as revised.