I will be brief. There is an IPP fact sheet on the Ministry of Justice website that describes IPP sentences as “unclear and inconsistent” and says that they are not working because they
“have been used far more widely than intended, with some … issued to offenders who have committed low level crimes with tariffs as short as two years.”
I do not understand why the Government would continue to leave people to rot in prison when they have scrapped the system. Perhaps the Minister could explain that
particular conundrum. I have no legal training but I think I have an awful lot of common sense; to me, this is a clear injustice.
On rotting in prison, I have had a letter from the mother of an IPP prisoner. She said that two of his fellow IPP prisoners committed suicide because they felt that there was nothing left in their lives. Clearly, this is an injustice. Are the Government going to do something?