Nearly 3,000 prisoners subject to an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, an indeterminate sentence introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012, should be resentenced immediately, the House of Commons’ Justice Committee has urged in a withering report published this week.
Release is based on rehabilitation; however, the committee found inadequate support inside and outside of prison, which has led to a ‘recall merry-go-round’.
Chair of the Justice Committee, Sir Bob Neill, said: ‘We have called for a time-limited small expert committee to advise on the practical implementation of the resentencing exercise in conjunction with the senior judiciary.’
