Professor Harry Kennedy:

We have all that data and we are fully informed about that. Getting back to the point about how to use services in prison even better than they are used at the moment, given that there are clear deficiencies, everybody who needs to be treated in hospital should be treated in hospital. The difficulty is having somewhere safe to send people back to who have been treated. Invariably, they will relapse on being returned to a prison. It would be helpful to have, as the CPT notes, designated centres in prisons that would be drug-free and where medication could be continued after the acute phases of treatment. It would be a practical solution to a practical problem and would take matters forward a bit.