Don’t give up on prisoners languishing under indefinite jail terms, beg campaigners
Exclusive: Fight for indefinitely held IPP prisoners continues as the UN calls for partial resentencing, warning ‘we cannot ...
Fishmongers’ Hall hero warns of more IPP prisoner suicides as he is finally freed from indefinite jail term
Marc Conway, who helped tackle a terrorist wearing a fake suicide vest, has backed The Independent’s campaign for all IPP ...
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Prisoner's brother warns 'torturous' IPP sentences will cause deaths in custody
But Rob's sentence was an IPP. They were introduced by Labour under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and first imposed in 2005.
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One-third of IPP prisoners are in the wrong prisons
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 ...
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‘Long-awaited day’ arrives with reform of controversial IPP sentence
These new provisions were introduced by the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 and have come into force on 1st November, ...
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More than 10,000 prison officers attacked in England and Wales over last year
MORE than 10,000 prison officers were attacked in overcrowded jails in England and Wales in the last year — an increase of ...
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Reforms signal end to hundreds of long-abolished indefinite prison sentences
IPP sentences were introduced in 2005 to prevent serious offenders who did not warrant a life sentence being released when ...
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Almost 2,000 ex-offenders to have 'lifetime licences' terminated - but campaigners want IPP sentences 'gone'
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 ...
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‘He’s been punished enough’: Family’s plea for prisoner who set himself alight under indefinite jail term
Clara White has begged the Ministry of Justice to move her brother to a hospital to get the ... His assessment comes as 1,800 ...
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Prisoners given minimum terms of less than six months still imprisoned after 16 years
Five of these inmates serving IPP sentences were given a tariff (a minimum time of imprisonment) of less than six months. A ...