The Independent has long campaigned for justice for the prisoners who are still serving the indefinite sentences that were abolished 14 years ago. Imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences were scrapped because they were an affront to the basic principles of justice – and yet those offenders serving them at the time continued to do so.
There are still 2,400 of them, given no release date, imprisoned until they can satisfy the Parole Board that it is safe to release them, and faced with a return to prison if they break the often stringent conditions imposed on them.
