Exclusive: IPP prisoner Liam Bennett, now 36, has spent more than half of his life in prison as he pleas for a chance at ...
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 ...
But Rob's sentence was an IPP. They were introduced by Labour under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and first imposed in 2005.
These new provisions were introduced by the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 and have come into force on 1st November, ...
IPP sentences were introduced in 2005 to prevent serious offenders who did not warrant a life sentence being released when they still posed a danger to the public. Despite being scrapped in 2012 – ...
Clara White has begged the Ministry of Justice to move her brother to a hospital to get the ... His assessment comes as 1,800 ...
Five of these inmates serving IPP sentences were given a tariff (a minimum time of imprisonment) of less than six months. A ...
A dad has gone on the run to avoid being recalled to prison indefinitely under an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence. Matthew Booth, 33, from Bolton, faces returning to jail for ...
Exclusive: Fugitive IPP prisoner spoke to The Independent and said: ‘How can someone not commit another crime yet end up in ...
The Labour government predicted that just a few hundred IPP sentences would be necessary each year, reserved for the most ...