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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy-Clare Martin

Indefinite jail terms ‘not right and not fair’, Lords say in call to end IPP injustice

Peers have demanded answers over the government’s refusal to resentence prisoners trapped under “no hope” indefinite jail terms, insisting: “It is not right and it is not fair.”

In an impassioned debate in the House of Lords, peers urged prisons minister James Timpson to take decisive action to end the injustice of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) jail terms.

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