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Prisoner serving 20 years under abolished sentence appeals for release | Lee Ashby, 42, has spent more than 20 years in prison after receiving an original sentence of around 14 months under the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) system: uk.news.yahoo.com/prisoner-s…
Police to reduce enforcement of minor tag breaches as part of the pilot | Officers will not act on breaches of police curfews or tag batteries of under an hour, unless the offender is considered to pose particular risk to the public: news.sky.com/story/police-to…
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"Inmates at Wandsworth Prison are being held in "inhumane living conditions", according to a report which also highlighted recurring problems with heating and hot water."
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The UK needs to end its obsession with prisons | Three quarters of prisons are overcrowded, meaning that in practice rehabilitation takes second place to warehousing inmates in cells where they can be kept for up to 23 hours a day: national.thelead.uk/p/the-uk…
If Andy Burnham wants to end rough sleeping he must close the revolving door in prisons | In our fragmented state with its broken public services, health and social issues including repeat offending fall between the gaps – always another agency’s problem: bigissue.com/news/housing/an…
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A man who spent 20yrs in prison under indefinite sentence imposed when he was 17 released after court ruled sentence a ‘very serious error'. Luke Ings was sentenced in 2006 for robbery and assault. Original sentence was 21m. Photo: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/freed-afte…
Like reviews, inquiries and inquests, a lot of time, money and effort goes into producing reports, but very little goes into ensuring lessons are learned and deaths are prevented: socialistworker.co.uk/news/s…
New rules to be laid before Parliament on Thursday will give judges powers to punish prisoners who refuse to attend sentencing with up to 84 days’ loss of privileges, 21 days’ cell confinement, 27 days without visits, or visits restricted to once every four weeks for 84 days.
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‘Man on 'surreal' freedom after 20 years in jail.’
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‘This is a very disturbing type of sentence, one that wasn’t thought through, and one that nobody could really see an answer to’
Joshua Rozenberg @JoshuaRozenberg speaks to Trapped on the #IPPScandal
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Sentencing Act 2026 | Squaring the punishment circle: revolutionarycommunist.org/b…
Rochester woman starts petition calling for independent reviews of repeated prison recalls: kentlocalnews.co.uk/rocheste…
New Website Launch | Reform and Rebuild | Supporting prisoners serving life and IPP sentences, alongside their families and friends, across the UK: reformandrebuild.co.uk/
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People wrongly convicted of crimes can spend decades fighting to prove their innocence.
Trew’s Law would give them a fairer route to justice.
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‘While the UK clears prisons to ease overcrowding, one group remains stuck.’
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Court of Appeal to review murder conviction over loss of control defence: Nicholas Curtis was jailed for life for murder of Glenda Jackson in 2018. CCRC says unclear whether the trial judge had considered partial defence of loss of control thejusticegap.com/court-of-a…
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‘That period of preventative detention has become excessive and arbitrary.’
Dr Muin Boase @GJSBarristers speaks to Trapped on the #IPPScandal
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A man who was a prisoner at HMP Birmingham has won a High Court battle over how his painkillers were handed out in prison during Ramadan | The judge rejected the NHS Trust’s argument that the original decision could open the floodgates to further claims: insidetime.org/newsround/mus…
Sickness absence across HMPPS remains nearly three times the national average, with mental ill health the leading cause and accounting for up to 60% of working days lost in probation, costing the service an estimated £84m per year.