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Campaigners plan month of pressure on Andy Burnham over IPP pledge
An exhibition, a Westminster event, a protest and legal challenges will keep the Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence in the spotlight through October 2026.
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Wormwood Scrubs prisoner died with seven unprescribed medicines in his system
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has criticised the management of medication at HMP Wormwood Scrubs after an IPP prisoner died of multidrug toxicity.
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Court of Appeal frees man after ruling his IPP sentence was unlawful
Niki Haycock has served 20 years on an indeterminate sentence the court says should never have been imposed, and a senior judge has called for others in his position to be found.
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Prime Minister pledges to end IPP sentences before the next election
Andy Burnham says the Government will legislate to terminate Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences this Parliament. Families and campaigners welcomed the pledge but warned against more false starts.
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UN experts condemn UK failure to end IPP sentence as families march on Parliament
Three United Nations special rapporteurs said the continued detention of IPP prisoners may amount to psychological torture, on the day campaigners protested in Westminster.
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IPP prisoner held for 17 years renounces British citizenship and asks for deportation
A British-Egyptian man still in HMP Manchester almost 10 years after his minimum term expired says deportation to Egypt is now his only hope.
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HMP Aylesbury unit to support IPP prisoners furthest from release
The Phoenix Unit will house 49 men, 15 of them serving IPP sentences, and offer yoga, acupuncture and a Stoicism course to help disengaged prisoners move towards parole.
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CCRC sends another young person’s indeterminate sentence to the Court of Appeal
The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of a man given Detention for Public Protection at 18, after six similar sentences were quashed in a fortnight.