根据一份新报告，威尔士一年内超过三分之一的缓刑前囚犯死亡与毒品有关。
More than a third of deaths of former prisoners on probation in Wales in a year were drug related, according to a new report.
这一比例高于英格兰和威尔士整体，后者总死亡人数中仅略多于五分之一与毒品有关。
This was higher than across England and Wales combined, where just over a fifth of total deaths were drug related.
卡迪夫大学威尔士治理中心发布了这份报告，并敦促政界人士解决刑事司法系统中的“系统性失败”。
The Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University published the report and urged politicians to tackle "systematic failures" in the criminal justice system.
报告作者罗伯特·琼斯博士呼吁英国政府和威尔士政府为这一“悲惨”的局面找到解决方案。
Report author Dr Robert Jones called on the UK and Welsh governments to find a solution to the "tragic" situation.
威尔士政府表示，正致力于减少“滥用药物造成的危害”，而英国政府表示，正投入340万英镑帮助出狱人员戒除成瘾。
The Welsh government said it was working to reduce "harms caused by substance misuse", while the UK government said it was spending £3.4m to support prison leavers to overcome addiction.
报告称，2024-25年度，在威尔士接受缓刑监管的出狱人员中，所有死亡病例有37%与毒品有关。
According to the report, 37% of all deaths among prison leavers supervised by probation in Wales in 2024-25 were drug related.
在威尔士，意图“未确定”的药物中毒死亡人数占52人死亡中的19人。
The number of drug poisonings where the intent was "undetermined" in Wales accounted for 19 of the 52 who died.
琼斯表示，这一比例“显著高于”英格兰和威尔士整体的比例，后者同类死亡占总数略多于五分之一（21%），即620人死亡中的131人。威尔士的刑事司法由威斯敏斯特控制。
Jones said this was "substantially higher" than the proportion across England and Wales as a whole, where deaths in this same category accounted for just over a fifth (21%) of the total - 131 out of 620. Criminal justice in Wales is controlled by Westminster.
威尔士的普莱德·赛姆鲁党政府，以及此前卡迪夫的工党政府，都主张将刑事司法权下放。
The Plaid Cymru Welsh government, and the previous Labour administration in Cardiff before it, argue it should be devolved.
琼斯在接受BBC威尔士采访时表示，该研究分析了英国政府的数据，包括信息自由请求。
Speaking to BBC Wales, Jones said the research looked at UK government data including Freedom of Information requests.
他说：“这更令人震惊的是，这些数据指向一些系统性失败，伴随着极其悲惨的境况和后果。
He said: "The added shock value to this is that these data point towards some systematic failures with incredibly tragic circumstances and consequences.
“然而，目前并没有真正针对这些死亡，以及其原因，以及我们如何真正找到解决方案的特定辩论或讨论。”琼斯表示，包括“应对药物滥用、住房、教育和地方政府的责任”在内的许多社会政策领域，都已下放给威尔士政府。
"Yet there isn't really a particular debate or discussion ongoing at the moment about these deaths, and indeed their causes, and how we might actually find a solution to them." Jones said many areas of social policy, including "responsibility for tackling substance use, housing, education and local government" were devolved to the Welsh government.
“刑事司法事务常常会在议会与西敏寺的辩论之间夹缝中落空，”他补充说。
"So what tends to happen is that criminal justice matters can often fall between the gaps between debates in the Senedd and debates in Westminster," he added.
琼斯表示，该报告提出了“关于现有权力下放安排的重要问题，以及威尔士政府是否拥有解决威尔士面临诸多挑战根源所需的权力和杠杆”。
Jones said the report raised "important questions about the current devolution settlement and whether the Welsh government has the powers and levers necessary to address the underlying causes of many of the challenges facing Wales".
他补充说：“只有正视本报告所强调的现实，政客和决策者才有望克服威尔士各社区面临的诸多挑战。”威尔士最大的无家可归者慈善机构Wallich的大卫·贝内特声称，大多数与毒品相关的死亡“如果把吸毒视为健康问题而非刑事司法问题，是可以预防的”。“住房、健康和司法需要协调一致的方法，”他说。
He added: "Only by confronting the realities highlighted throughout this report can politicians and policymakers hope to overcome the many challenges facing communities across Wales." David Bennett, from Wallich, Wales's largest homelessness charity, claimed most drug-related deaths "are preventable if we treat drug use as a health, not criminal justice, issue". "Housing, health and justice need a joined-up approach," he said.
他说，该慈善机构支持“关于下放司法和警务的对话”，并表示如果没有“协调”的支持，出狱人员就“注定要失败”。“禁毒战争行不通，”他补充说。该报告还称，威尔士前囚犯中的无家可归现象仍在上升。
He said the charity supported "conversations to devolve justice and policing" and said without "co-ordinated" support prison leavers were "being set up to fail". "The war on drugs hasn't worked," he added. The report also says homelessness among former prisoners in Wales is continuing to rise.
2025-26年，由威尔士缓刑服务监管、在获释当天被记录为露宿街头的出狱人数上升了24%。
The number of people leaving prison, supervised by Welsh probation services, who were recorded as rough sleeping on the day of their release rose by 24% in 2025-26.
总计，695名由威尔士缓刑服务管理的出狱人员在获释当天露宿街头。
In total, 695 prison leavers managed by Welsh probation services were rough sleeping on the day of their release.
其他发现包括，2025年威尔士判给女性的所有监禁刑罚中，超过三分之一（39%）与商店盗窃有关。
Other findings include that more than a third (39%) of all custodial sentences given to women in Wales in 2025 were for offences related to thefts from shops.
与此同时，2025年，威尔士监狱人口中，黑人族裔群体仍然是代表性最过剩的族裔群体。
Meanwhile, people from black ethnic groups in Wales remained the most overrepresented ethnic group in the prison population in 2025.
每10,000名人口中，威尔士监狱中有58名黑人，而白人为15名。
There were 58 black people from Wales in prison for every 10,000 of the population, compared with 15 white people per 10,000 of the population.
威尔士政府一位发言人表示：“每一起与毒品相关的死亡都是一场悲剧。”
A spokesperson for the Welsh government said: "Every drug-related death is a tragedy.
“我们正与卫生委员会、地方政府、威尔士公共卫生署及其他关键合作伙伴密切合作，减少药物滥用造成的危害，重点关注早期干预、预防、治疗和康复支持。”他们补充说，这些发现“进一步支持将司法权完全下放给威尔士的主张”。
"We are working closely with health boards, local authorities, Public Health Wales and other key partners to reduce the harms caused by substance misuse, focusing on early intervention, prevention, treatment and recovery support." They added that the findings "strengthen the case for the full devolution of justice to Wales".
发言人补充说，将司法责任与下放服务“保持一致”将“能够采取更有效、更协调的方法，改善威尔士各地的结局，降低再犯率，建设更安全的社区”。这一建议遭到了改革党议员阿德里安·梅森的驳斥。
"Bringing responsibility for justice into line" with devolved services "would enable a more effective and joined-up approach to improving outcomes, reducing reoffending and building safer communities across Wales", the spokesperson added. That suggestion was dismissed by Reform Senedd member Adrian Mason.
“认为解决毒品死亡问题的办法是更多下放权力，这一观点显然是错误的，苏格兰就是明证，”他说。
"The idea that the answer to drug deaths is more devolution is demonstrably wrong, as proven by Scotland," he said.
“在苏格兰，司法权已下放并由民族主义者管理，而那里的毒品死亡率是整个欧洲最高的。威尔士人民期望政客们专注于本职工作，而不是每次都推动更多权力。”
"In Scotland, justice is devolved and run by nationalists, and they have the highest drug death rates in the whole of Europe "The people of Wales expect politicians to get on with the day job rather than pushing for more and more powers at every turn."
司法部发言人说：“我们接手的是处于危机中的监狱，但我们正在各个方面采取行动，包括通过投资社区服务减少被羁押的女性人数，并切断毒品流入监狱的渠道。
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "We inherited prisons in crisis but we're acting on all fronts, including by reducing the number of women in custody through investment in community services and cutting the flow of drugs into prisons.
“在威尔士，我们向在监狱、缓刑和法院之间运作的服务投入超过340万英镑，帮助出狱人员克服成瘾问题。”他们补充说，面临无家可归风险的囚犯可以由监狱和缓刑服务提供临时住房。
"In Wales we invest more than £3.4m into services which work across prisons, probation and courts to help support prison leavers overcome their addiction." They added that prisoners at risk of becoming homeless can be offered temporary accommodation by the prison and probation service.
威尔士事务委员会主席、西敏的鲁思·琼斯说：“听到威尔士超过三分之一的出狱人员死于药物中毒，且威尔士无家可归的出狱人员人数在增加，这令人痛心。”
Chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee at Westminster, Ruth Jones, said: "It is devastating to hear that more than a third of all deaths among prison leavers in Wales were due to drug poisoning, and that the number of homeless prison leavers in Wales has increased.
这些数据凸显了我们今年早些时候报告的调查结果：监狱和缓刑系统正面临日益复杂的需求，这对康复结果有着严重影响。
"The data underscores the findings of our inquiry that reported earlier this year: the prison and probation system is struggling with increasingly complex demand, which has serious implications for rehabilitation outcomes."
她补充道：“改善威尔士特定的司法数据，是我的委员会一直向英国政府施压的事项，鉴于琼斯博士向司法部提出的几项数据请求未得到回应，很明显这里还有工作要做。”
She added: "Improving Wales-specific justice data is something my committee has consistently pressed the UK government on, and in light of several of Dr Jones' data requests to the Ministry of Justice not receiving a response, it is clear that there is still work to be done here."