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Coming tomorrow 🔉Ep 11. Prisoners of Politics - The inside story of the measures being taken by members of the House of Lords for #IPP prisoners in the current parliamentary Victims and Prisoners Bill.

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Great story by Sammy Gecsoyler

‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years

Coroner condemns ‘inhumane’ imprisonment for public protection sentences that have no end date for release
This is such a powerful story by Shanti Das
theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/2…

David Blunkett, who introduced the horrific indeterminate IPP '99-year' sentence as home secretary, tells me it's his biggest regret
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Fantastic investigative piece by Will Coldwell in Prospect on the horrific manslaughter conviction of Ibrahima Bah

This is obscene.

'Post officer operator Martin Griffiths attempted suicide in 2013 and died in hospital weeks later.

'The Post Office offered his widow, Gina Griffiths, £140,000 in a settlement and insisted she sign a non-disclosure agreement.'
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Simon Hattenstone (((Dan Hodges))) Timely. Had a letter from Moorcroft debt collectors chasing £150 already payed. This has happened 3times in the last 2 years

More worringly had a text from them this morning. Are HM Revenue & Customs HMRC Customer Support allowed to share my phone number with a third party?

Three weeks after my mum died, HMRC sent in the debt collectors to hound me for paye tax that I'd paid for her carers two months earlier. I'm sure others have experienced similar things
theguardian.com/money/2024/apr…

This is about Tommy Nichol, a prisoner who took his life after saying he couldn't cope with the 'psychological torture' of a 99-year-sentence. It's the first in a series, and it feels weird writing it without teaming up with the much missed Eric Allison
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Wooooooooo! Labour makes genuinely positive pledge
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

If you read one thing today, make it this

Thousands of people are being held on indefinite prison sentences in the UK, their mental health deteriorates, and this is used as a reason not to release them. UNGRIPP are an amazing organisation (and read PROOF/ The Justice Gap for more)

Sadly, Nicol's story is a familiar one to those serving IPP sentences.

We highly recommend making time to read Simon Hattenstone's piece: theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

TRAPPED: The IPP Prisoner Scandal Simon Hattenstone 1% of those who have been freed from IPPs have committed a serious offence. 83 out of 8300. More than that, 90 of those on IPP have tragically taken their own lives.

The Howard League Simon Hattenstone UNGRIPP When will this horror end ipp has killed so many ipp prisoners and it has allso killed many of their families with broken hearts waiting and waiting for them to get a date to come home end ipp sentence end this death sentence

Alex Chalk KC MP Keir Starmer Rishi Sunak
Licence changes are great but more needs to be done so those in prison are not forgotten

The gut wrenching tragedy & horror of the IPP sentence laid bare in this superb & heartbreaking article by Simon Hattenstone

Please read it, RT & support the UNGRIPP & IPP COMMITTEE IN ACTION campaign for resentencing

The Labour Party Kevin Brennan MP Shabana Mahmood MP
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Simon Hattenstone Peter Stefanovic Far too many people qre given prison sentences instead of their MH being addressed. It's time for it to stop. Also prison should be for the most serious of offenders so they're not overcrowded

#justiceforipps
So many have killed themselves since Tommy took his own life. Wake up Alex Chalk KC MP

The Howard League Simon Hattenstone UNGRIPP I read the piece this morning & it was heartbreaking. How can a govt accept that IPPs are an inhumane sentence & do away with them, but keep prisoners already in prison on an IPP? It’s utterly shameful.