The IPP scandal
Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences were scrapped in 2012 - but almost 3,000 people are still on them, with no idea when they will be released from prison. Why are they not set free?
Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’
Britain’s Forgotten Prisoners is a devastating documentary about the ‘public protection’ sentences that can amount to whole-of-life terms for relatively minor offences. Film-maker Martin Read explains his seven-year quest for justice
As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?
The long read: Indeterminate sentences are devastating to mental health, but prisoners with mental illness are less likely to be released. The result is a vicious cycle whereby the most vulnerable inmates often have the least chance of getting out – as John’s case shows
Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison on a ‘99-year’ sentence?
His sister says the only person he ever presented a serious threat to was himself, yet he was given an indeterminate sentence for stealing a car. The psychological torture was impossible to endure
