TheAnonymousIpp

A father trapped under an abolished indefinite jail term has made six attempts on his own life after serving 25 times longer than his original sentence This madness has got to end @ShabanaMahmood @JamsTCobbler independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr…

🚨HUGELY IMPORTANT UPDATE No one should spend 12 years in jail for stealing a mobile phone! I’m backing fresh attempt to resolve the #IPPscandal once &for all by supporting a Private Members’ Bill by Labour peer Lord Woodley for resentencing Let’s end this monumental injustice

🚨This week saw a hugely important intervention from the UN Special Rapporteur on torture @DrAliceJEdwards who has called on the recently elected UK Government to review the sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) prisoners, stressing the need for the remaining IPP prisoners to be resentenced without delay, and for the indeterminate sentence system to be brought to a definitive close. “IPP sentences are inhuman treatment and, in many cases, amount to psychological torture” she says. The #IPPscandal is one of the most shocking, cruel, degrading & monumental injustices of the past half-century - a scandal which has already claimed the lives of 90 people serving IPP sentences in prison and a further 31 that we know of in the community. I cannot overstate the urgency on this - in June one person serving an IPP sentence, a staggering 12 years over tariff set himself alight & another began his second hunger strike. This insanity has got to end. We must now put a stop to this inhumane and indefensible treatment which has absolutely no place in a modern Britain and political leaders previously lacking the courage to take action must now do so Let’s work together @ShabanaMahmood to end this injustice now