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A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is to be held into the deaths of two people who took their own lives at a young offenders institution.

Mum Linda paid tribute to her daughter today and vowed to never stop fighting for justice.

The Sunday Mail can reveal a massive project was looked at in 2019 to ­implement ­suicide ­prevention measures in all cells in our publicly run jails at a cost of £155million.

Calum Inglis, 34, was coughing up blood after becoming seriously ill with the virus but his family claim his repeated requests for medical assistance via a cell intercom system were ignored.

Mail Opinion says we need to treat inmates like human beings if we want them to behave like human beings.

A discovery by Labour MSP Monica Lennon revealed the worrying rise in deaths across Scottish prisons. In 2019 a report by the Scottish government revealed Scotland had some of the worst death rates in Europe.

Scottish prison deaths in recent years include the death of 21-year-old Katie Allan at Polmont Young Offenders Institute in 2018, and the death of Allan Marshall in 2015 after he was restrained by prison officers during a struggle at Saughton Prison.