3 months, 1 week ago

IPP sentences are a stain on the UK – it’s time we did something about them

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As such, there are still 2,734 prisoners serving IPP sentences in the UK – 700 of which have served more than 10 years longer than their minimum tariff. Since IPP prisoners can be recalled to jail without further convictions being passed down, Lawrence has been forced to return to prison five times in the past two decades, and still resides there now. As much as some corners of the UK would quite happily have it otherwise, prisons aren’t torture centres, and prisoners are still human beings, worthy of compassion and respect. That “torture” comment wasn’t hyperbole – the UN as described IPP sentences as a form of “psychological torture” in the past.

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6 days, 2 hours ago

Father who set himself alight on indefinite IPP sentence refused hospital care as family loses hope

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1 week, 4 days ago

Jailed without hope: Ministers block 128 prisoners on indefinite jail terms from moving to open conditions

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The government needs to help prisoners serving indefinite jail terms – not prolong their suffering

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The government has blocked 128 inmates trapped by cruel indefinite jail terms from moving to open prisons in the past year. This is only the latest injustice suffered by prisoners who are still serving indefinite sentences 12 years after imprisonment for public protection jail terms were abolished in 2012. After an adverse ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, …

1 month, 1 week ago

Resentencing of prisoners trapped under indefinite IPP jail terms not ‘adequately explored’, justice committee warns

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1 month, 1 week ago

Calls for health secretary to help IPP prisoner who set himself alight after serving 12 years for stealing phone

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Is there any hope that IPP prisoners will be released by this government?

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2 months ago

Marc Conway: Fishmongers’ Hall hero warns of more IPP prisoner suicides as he is finally freed from indefinite jail term

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2 months ago

‘Torturous’ indefinite jail term robbed son of whole adult life before he died in a cell at 34, mother says

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2 months, 1 week ago

‘He’s been punished enough’: Family’s plea for IPP prisoner who set himself alight

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

If our prisons are at breaking point, why are prisoners sentenced to one year still there 19 years later?

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When any royal visits a prison, the governor inevitably chooses only the most trusted residents to take part in any meet-and-greet. James Lawrence, handed an eight-month minimum tariff in 2006 by a judge as part of an IPP sentence for threatening someone with an imitation pistol, is still inside more than 18 years later. But that doesn’t mean that I …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

IPP sentence: Top judge demands help for prisoners ‘left to rot’ under ‘morally wrong’ indefinite jail terms

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3 months, 1 week ago

Father still trapped in jail 18 years after being given 8-month IPP sentence – for waving a starting pistol

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

IPP scandal: Teenager jailed for 18 months after fight in McDonald’s still in prison 18 years later under indefinite jail term

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Prisoner who set himself alight after serving 12 years for stealing phone should be in hospital, medics warn

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4 months ago

IPP scandal: Call for free vote on bill to end ‘living nightmare’ of indefinite jail terms

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

UN torture tsar calls on Starmer to review sentences of IPP prisoners trapped indefinitely behind bars

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5 months ago

IPP sentence: Father robbed of 16 years before indefinite jail term quashed

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5 months, 1 week ago

IPP scandal: Father languishing in jail 19 years after laptop robbery under ‘scandalous’ indeterminate sentence

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A father trapped under an indefinite jail term for a laptop robbery almost 20 years ago still has no release date after he was recalled to prison for missing a hospital appointment. Sir Bob urged the new government to have the courage to follow the committee’s recommendation to resentence almost 3,000 prisoners still trapped under the sentence, warning: “It needs …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Prisoners trapped on indeterminate jail terms not included in Labour government’s sentencing review

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Calls to end injustice of indefinite jail terms as Keir Starmer to release prisoners early

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Sir Keir Starmer is facing demands to end the injustice of almost 3,000 prisoners being trapped under abolished indefinite jail terms as he prepares to oversee the mass early release of inmates to ease overcrowding. The architect of the flawed sentences, former New Labour home secretary Lord Blunkett, told The Independent he backed demands for urgent action from the new …

6 months, 2 weeks ago

IPP prisoner dreams of ‘normal life’ after spending 18 years in jail for 23-month sentence

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Desperate prisoner trapped under indefinite jail term driven to hunger strike

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7 months, 1 week ago

Dad trapped under indefinite jail term ‘failed and forgotten’ as he’s transferred 12 times in 12 years

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Failure to address ‘ludicrous’ injustice of indefinite jail terms is ‘political cowardice’, peer warns

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9 months, 1 week ago

Prisoner held indefinitely refused parole after making landmark public bid for freedom

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Calls to end the ‘living nightmare’ of indefinite jail terms ahead of crunch Lords debate

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Vulnerable prisoner serving indefinite jail term held in isolation for 800 days

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1 year, 1 month ago

IPP prisoners need resentencing – before even more lives are lost

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The justice secretary, Alex Chalk, a relative newcomer to the cabinet table, has distinguished himself, if only by comparison, as one of the more rational and pragmatic members of Rishi Sunak’s team. As far as the balance of power at the top of government goes, over the past six months or so, the departures of Dominic Raab and Suella Braverman, …

1 year, 1 month ago

Government blasted for refusing to resentence inmates trapped in jail under IPP sentences

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1 year, 1 month ago

Revealed: 16 years in prison for stealing a bike and no hope of release – as 7 held under scrapped IPP orders kill themselves

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2 years, 3 months ago

MPs call for an overhaul of IPP jail sentences

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3 years, 4 months ago

The tragedy behind the highly controversial IPP prison sentences

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Marc Conway looked on with concern at his fellow inmate at HMP Grendon. “Lots of people serving IPP prison sentences have severe mental health issues now. Self-harm and suicide rates are so much higher for the IPP cohort because they don’t have certainty that every other sentence has.” Mooney feels there needs to be highly trained mental health support introduced …

5 years, 3 months ago

IPP: This draconian prison sentence has ruined my life

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Britain's worst prisons: From inmates removing their own cell doors, to 'catastrophic' levels of drug use, violence and vermin infestations, the shocking reports that lay bare state of UK jails

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