Government facing legal action after UN rules IPP prisoners are detained arbitrarily

Government facing legal action after UN rules IPP prisoners are detained arbitrarily

Exclusive: Lawyers have sent justice secretary Alex Norris a letter before action over ‘indefensible’ indefinite jail terms condemned by human rights watchdog

Resolving an enduring injustice - why every IPP prisoner needs a resentencing review - Centre for Mental Health

The Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence was introduced in England and Wales in 2005. It was intended for people considered dangerous, but whose offence did not merit a life sentence. Like a life sentence, it means a person can be in detention for a potentially unlimited period until they can prove that they are no longer a threat to the public. More than a decade after the IPP sentence was abolished, around 2,000 people continue to…