It cannot be right that there are still 2,400 prisoners in Britain who are detained, with no date given for their release, under a law that was repealed in 2012 because it was so self-evidently cruel and counterproductive.
The coalition government scrapped the law allowing judges to impose sentences of “imprisonment for public protection” (IPP) for offenders who were neither guilty of murder nor mentally ill, but who were regarded as a danger to the public.
