this link, enter your email address, and select 'MyBury News'.IPP sentences were designed to keep protect from the public from prolific and dangerous offenders, but were scrapped months later by the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, in 2012, because they disproportionately punished those who committed low level offences.However, that had no bearing on people who had already been sentenced under the poorly-understood IPP regime, who were considered to be serious threats to the public when they were jailed.
They must access courses to win their parole, and those who either haven't been able to, or have seen their mental health or behaviour deteriorate while losing hope of release, have ended up being locked away for years beyond their original.
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