The Latest Breaking News from IPP

Exclusive: Leighton Williams was wrongly handed an IPP sentence with a 30-month tariff for a drunken fight aged 19. More than 16 years later it was quashed. In his first interview about his ordeal, he has called for 3,000 remaining IPP prisoners to have their cases reviewed, Amy-Clare Martin writes

Exclusive: Government must have ‘courage to know when something is wrong’ and review IPP sentences, Bob Neill tells The Independent

Exclusive: Horrified family members believe IPP prisoner Thomas White acted in despair as he loses hope of ever being freed

Britain’s Forgotten Prisoners is a devastating documentary about the ‘public protection’ sentences that can amount to whole-of-life terms for relatively minor offences. Film-maker Martin Read explains his seven-year quest for justice

IPP prisoner Thomas White has been moved 12 times after serving 12 years for a two-year tariff for stealing a mobile phone

Baroness Fox praised The Independent for shining a light on the plight of IPP prisoners in a House of Lords debate

Cross-party peers take up cause of ‘inhumane’ sentences highlighted by The Independent – but proposals fall short of resentencing

The long read: Indeterminate sentences are devastating to mental health, but prisoners with mental illness are less likely to be released. The result is a vicious cycle whereby the most vulnerable inmates often have the least chance of getting out – as John’s case shows

He tackled a murderer to the ground to protect the public. But the draconian licence conditions of his ‘99-year sentence’ meant that the first person he called was his probation officer