John Thomas, the former lord chief justice, said in parliament on Wednesday: “We cannot shirk the responsibility for rectifying an injustice. And what an injustice this is.” He is right.
It seems hard to believe that in Britain today there are thousands of people in our prisons who are serving unlimited sentences. Many of them were originally jailed for relatively minor offences, but because they were considered a danger to the public, they were given a specific type of sentence known as imprisonment for public protection (IPP).
