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Fresh hope of release for inmates trapped on ‘inhumane’ indefinite jail terms decades after their crimes

The Independent has tirelessly campaigned for more than two years for all IPP prisoners to have their sentences reviewed – as 2,400 languish in jail, many for petty crimes and some locked up as children, with no release date

The Independent UK

UN condemns ‘arbitrary’ detention of UK prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms as ‘psychological torture’

The UN’s Human Rights Council lashed out at the UK government for ‘inhumane treatment’ of IPP prisoners

The Independent UK

My brother stole a mobile phone - 14 years on he’s facing prison again with no release date

Exclusive: Thomas White is being sent back to prison indefinitely after nine months in secure hospital

The Independent UK

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Long-term solutions to the Prison Service crisis

Letters: Prof Ian Pickup on prison education, Henry Rossi on resentencing IPP prisoners, Andrew RC McLellan on earlier release and Dr Rod Earle on a lesson from 1930s Red Vienna

The Guardian - UK

Britain accused of ‘serious human rights violations’ over failure to end indefinite jail terms

Experts have called for the government to urgently resentence almost 2,400 remaining IPP prisoners

The Independent UK

‘I’m so desperate to be freed from prison that I’ve renounced my British citizenship’

Exclusive: Nicholas Bidar has renounced his British citizenship after losing all hope of being freed from his IPP jail term

The Independent UK

Indigenous-run business quotas target 'black cladding'

Strict new measures aim to stop companies pretending to be Indigenous to benefit from procurement programs targeting First Nations businesses.

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‘I just can’t do it anymore’: Prisoner wrote note blaming ‘cruel’ indefinite jail term before he was found dead

Exclusive: Steven McBride’s sister has spoken of her anguish after an inquest found he felt ‘trapped, hopeless and frustrated’ on an IPP jail term

The Independent UK

‘The torture continues’: Father who robbed phone 20 years ago recalled to prison after anonymous phone call

Shaun Lloyd – whose case is being reviewed by the UN – has not been arrested, interviewed or charged but is facing years more behind bars on an IPP sentence he was handed as a teenager

The Independent UK

Ministers urged to end ‘catastrophic cycle’ of open-ended IPP recalls

Exclusive: More £64million is spent each year locking up IPP prisoners recalled to prison indefinitely despite committing no further crime, campaigners estimate

The Independent UK

Uar Bernard: the ‘rarest physical specimen’ who exposes the NFL’s scouting flaws

The Philadelphia Eagles selected the Nigerian defensive lineman before he had even played a down of football. More teams should take risks on global talent

The Guardian - US

‘My son was torn from my arms and I was sent back to prison for crime I didn’t commit’

JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Indefinite jail terms were scrapped in 2012, but continue to tear families apart. Amy-Clare Martin follows the harrowing case of a mother separated from her son over the constant threat of recall for a petty crime she committed 20 years ago

The Independent UK

Teen trapped for 20 years on indefinite jail term should have served 18 months, judges rule

Jay Davis is among six prisoners languishing on IPP jail terms to have their sentences quashed last week

The Independent UK

‘Shameless cruelty’: Father held under indefinite jail term for stealing phone faces being sent back to prison

Exclusive: Devastated relatives say Thomas White, who has served 14 years stealing a mobile phone, has been told he is going back to prison without a release date

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IPP prisoners subjected to ‘inhuman treatment’ under ‘dystopian’ UK system, major report to UN warns

‘The UK cannot hypocritically stand against despotic regimes when its own systems are so dystopian,’ a report on the plight of eight prisoners on indefinite jail terms said

The Independent UK

‘I have given them 21 years of my life, now they want my soul’: IPP prisoner jailed for stealing £20 could be deported in days

Exclusive: Sheldon Coore, who has lived in Britain since he was a toddler, has been moved to an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport ahead of his deportation to Jamaica

The Independent UK

Britain’s IPP scandal must end – it cannot be salvaged by any ‘action plan’

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The government’s attempt to fix this failed system will only heap further misery on those whose lives it has shattered – it is time to bring this terrible nightmare to a just end

The Independent UK

Secret prison documents show government plan to tackle IPP scandal will fail

Exclusive: Damning projections reveal the government’s action plan to progress IPP prisoners is a ‘failure’, which will leave at least 500 prisoners languishing without release 18 years after the sentence was abolished

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The Independent UK

One man’s struggle lights up a wider scandal

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: We urge ministers to read Haroon Ahmed’s story and to summon the courage to end the injustice of indefinite sentences for 2,400 other prisoners

The Independent UK

‘I was like a hostage. After almost 18 years on an indefinite jail term, they finally admitted my IPP sentence was wrong’

JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Exclusive: Haroon Ahmed, whose indefinite jail term was quashed in the Court of Appeal, says IPP prisoners are ‘hostages’ who have grown from teenagers to men watching more dangerous offenders be released, Amy-Clare Martin reports

The Independent UK

This must be a turning point in the fight to end indefinite detentions

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Criminal Cases Review Commission is right to refer five IPP prisoners to the appeal courts – Vera Baird’s decision must now be a spur to ministers to finally do the right thing

The Independent UK

New hope for IPP prisoners as five men held on indefinite jail terms referred to appeal courts

IPP prisoner Luke Ings, who served more than 18 years after he was jailed for robbery and a fight in McDonald’s aged just 17, is among the cases up for review by judges

The Independent UK

‘I’ve spent almost 20 years in prison for robbing £20. Now the UK wants to deport me to a country I’ve never called home’

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Sheldon Coore, 47, says he is being punished ‘twice and thrice and even tenfold’

The Independent UK

Imprisoned indefinitely for stealing a phone? End this injustice, prime minister

THE INDEPENDENT’S VIEW: Editorial: The discredited law of open-ended sentencing was abolished as ‘unjust’ 14 years ago, yet it continues to blight lives and overwhelm prisons. Ending IPP injustice for the 2,400 prisoners still denied a release date is not about being soft on crime – it is about upholding…

The Independent UK

Britain’s former top judge tells Starmer: Make things right on cruel indefinite jail terms

Lord Thomas compares scandal to Post Office and infected blood sagas – as he calls on PM to scrap ‘unjust’ indefinite jail terms highlighted by The Independent

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