The IPP scheme has been described as 'the single greatest stain on our criminal justice system' by a former supreme court justice. Martin Read has been meeting some of those prisoners affected.
It’s a scheme described as ‘the single greatest stain on our criminal justice system’ by a former supreme court justice.
Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences, introduced under New Labour, allowed offenders to be kept in jail indefinitely if they posed a risk to the public.Today, a committee of MPs has called for them to be re-sentenced, saying the system causes ‘acute harm’. Martin Read has been meeting some of those affected – and a warning, his report contains distressing themes
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