Exclusive: Fight for indefinitely held IPP prisoners continues as the UN calls for partial resentencing, warning ‘we cannot ...

Marc Conway, who helped tackle a terrorist wearing a fake suicide vest, has backed The Independent’s campaign for all IPP ...

Reforms announced by the previous Tory government come into force today and will shorten the licence period for those serving ...

One-third of prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences are in the wrong prisons, the Government has admitted. Around 840 of the 2,800 people still in custody on the ...

IPP sentences were introduced in 2005 to prevent serious offenders who did not warrant a life sentence being released when ...

But Rob's sentence was an IPP. They were introduced by Labour under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and first imposed in 2005.

Sentences of 'imprisonment for public protection' (IPPs) have been widely condemned, but many are still in force ...

John Thomas, a member of the House of Lords who served as lord chief justice from 2013 to 2017, fears that without action, those sent down under abolished imprisonment for public protection (IPP ...

The reforms, announced by the previous Conservative justice secretary Alex Chalk, are being enacted by the government from today in a bid to address the ongoing IPP scandal that has resulted in ...

Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, said: “The Government claims it is working at pace on releasing IPP prisoners. Yet the rate of release of IPP prisoners ...

In July 2000, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting, a convicted paedophile who had been released early from a four-year sentence for abducting and assaulting a young girl.