The latest in a brilliant series by Simon Hattenstone focusing on people trapped on IPP sentences. This hones in on the terror of being recalled to prison and ends with the words of Matthew Price for whom the torture was too great. 1/4

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‘Indeterminate sentencing was so controversial that it was abolished in 2012 after being ruled an abuse of human rights. However, while the sentence was abolished, those still serving one were not resentenced.’

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Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it? theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

#IPPScandal #Prisonersofpolitics

Samantha Asumadu Centre for Crime and Justice Studies Prison Reform Trust The Howard League Peter Stefanovic Faith Spear FRSA UNGRIPP IPP JUSTICE FOR ALL IPP COMMITTEE IN ACTION

'I feel like I'm watching a slow suicide and I pray that authorities can please help before it's too late.'

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Check out TRAPPED: IPP Prisoner Scandal's video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQfFoDd/

‘The scheme will not, however, change the status of IPP prisoners still in jail. Martin Myers, Wayne Bell, Aaron Graham, and the almost 3,000 other IPP prisoners who remain behind bars will continue to be left to rot’ #IPPScandal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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“This SHOULD never of been allowed to happen, for a son to not see his dad for stealing a mobile phone!
This is the continued trauma on families
This young man and his dad cannot get those years back 🥲Alex Chalk KC MP TRAPPED: The IPP Prisoner Scandal Sky News Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture

Unfair jail sentences – one more example of demonising society’s ‘morally unfit’ | Kenan Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘Everyone agrees that IPP sentences are a disgrace. Yet, since their abolition, policy to remedy the continuing injustice has been at best begrudging.’

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Couldn’t agree more with what Sir Bob recommends here . He will be greatly missed when he steps down at the next general election. I have always had the utmost respect for Sir Bob. He has always supported ⁦POA⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Join us in Glasgow for our #SoulsINQUEST exhibition at Platform Glasgow

📅10 May - 29 June

📷An artistic collaboration between bereaved families, Sarah Booker and INQUEST, SoulsINQUEST is a powerful act of defiance in response to decades of injustice

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'Emotional' reunion for father and son separated for more than a decade over theft of a mobile phone’

Alex Chalk KC MP Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer

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The government's proposed changes to IPP sentences in the Victims & Prisoners Bill are a step in the right direction, but they do not go far enough in addressing the plight of people on these sentences.

Read our briefing: howardleague.org/wp-content/upl…

#JusticeForIPPs #IPP
UNGRIPP

IN PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK: 'Martin Jones (CEO) is one of many, many experts calling for the resentencing to end the nightmare injustice of imprisonment without end. So what is the government's real reason for rejecting resentencing?' - Lord Woodley.

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The government's proposed changes to IPP sentences in the Victims & Prisoners Bill are a step in the right direction, but they do not go far enough in addressing the plight of people on these sentences.

Read our briefing: howardleague.org/wp-content/upl…
#JusticeForIPPs #IPP UNGRIPP

“Justice is having a date when you know you're going to be released. The rate things are going, quite a lot of these people will die in jail simply because of the passage of time. Is that what the government is thinking?” Lord Moylan

From Trapped: The #IPP Prisoner Scandal

So important all parties grip the chance to at last do the right thing ~

Thank goodness for the unrelenting fight for justice by UNGRIPP Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon) MP and other true public servants like him.

They know that Parliament can do something here that is right and good.

'We've had people that have been in hospital and they've been recalled as their probation officer can't get hold of them.'

58% (1,616) of people serving IPP sentences are back in prison after being released and later recalled.

More from UNGRIPP here: youtube.com/watch?v=7tBzt6…

#ipp20yearsandcounting …

“They say, we can’t let you go home we need paper work” but do they realise it’s more harm to keep you in psychology..?
It’s more harm NOT to know.?
No plans for tomorrow? No plans for today?

20 years though, life just doesn’t wait! The Parole Board