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Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire.
THE government has rejected MPs’ calls for thousands of prisoners detained indefinitely to be resentenced, in a move described as inhumane and indefensible.
The Commons justice committee said in a report last year that people still behind bars under the now abolished imprisonment for public protection (IPP) scheme should have their cases reviewed.
IPP sentences were scrapped in 2012. However, this abolition was not applied retrospectively, and almost 3,000 people remain locked up in England and Wales after receiving such a sentence.
Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
