If every cell counts in the present prison crisis – as intense as ever, even if it has slipped from the headlines lately – then it is even more intolerable that the authorities continue to drag their feet on reviewing the cases of some 2,300 prisoners still incarcerated under an unjust and discredited law, long since abolished.
These are people, many adolescents at the time, sentenced under the IPP (indefinite public protection) regime, whose cause is at last being recognised, if only because of the pressure on places for criminals much more obviously in need of such punishment.
