Eight inmates at HMP Leeds took their own lives in the last year, inspectors say.
Leeds Prison has the second highest number of self-inflicted deaths of any jail in England and Wales, according to prison inspectors.
Inspectors said since the last inspection in 2022, there had been 28 deaths in total, "including eight self-inflicted deaths, one attributed to drug use and two waiting to be classified". Concerns were also raised about overcrowding "with almost 80% of prisoners living two to a cell designed for one person".
Rob Preece, from prisoner welfare charity the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "If we take an old building like Armley jail and put many, many more people in there than it's designed to hold there are going to be problems.
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