Despite recent efforts by the Parole Board and prison service to increase the rate of release of IPP prisoners, the Parole Board predicts that without legislative action by 2020 there will still be 2000 people in prison serving on IPP sentence.

The Parole Board has put forward sensible recommendations to expedite the release of the remaining IPP prisoner population. These include proposals to convert IPP sentences into their equivalent determinate sentences, and the executive release of those like James given an original tariff of two years or less. It has also proposed measures to address the growing number of people serving IPP sentences in the community being recalled to custody for breach of their licence conditions.

The report launched in 2017 by the Centre for Social Justice calling for a reboot of the rehabilitation revolution proposes measures to deal with the remaining IPP prisoner population including the release of the majority of post-tariff IPP prisoners, prioritising those with an original tariff of two years or less.

2017 there was a debate on prison overcrowding in the House of Lords highlighted growing unease among peers over the failure of the government to legislate to address the injustice faced by the remaining IPP prisoner population.

Commenting, Mark Day, Head of Policy and Communications at the Prison Reform Trust, said:

“The IPP continues to cast a long shadow over our justice system years after its abolition. Despite recent welcome efforts by the Parole Board and prison service to speed up the release of the remaining IPP prisoner population, without legislative action there will still be thousands of people caught in indefinite detention by 2020. The onus is now on the government to put into action the sensible recommendations made by the Parole Board and other senior policymakers and finally put an end to this unfair and unjust sentence.”

GOAL POST KEEP MOVING

WE WAS REASURED BY THE PAROLE BOARD THAT ALL IPP PRISONER OVER TARRIF WOULD BE RELEASED BY 2018- 2020.  I WAS PRESENT AND YOU ALL READ THE MINUTES OF THAT MEETING.

NOW WE ALL MUST MAKE A STAND AND WRITE TO THE JUSTICE MINISTER MOREOVER THE PRIME MINISTHER. THE PERIOD OF TIME THAT HAS PAST THAT THE GOVERMENT HAS HAD TO DEAL WITH THE IPP ISSUES IS NEGLEGENT AND THE EXCUSES BLIDING. IT IS UNACCEPTIBLE AND MINDLESS TO KEEP CHANGING THE TIME FRAME WHEN CHANGE HAD NOT MADE A DIFFRENCE "ITS NOT WORKING DESPITE 4 JUSTICE MINISTHERS LATHER IT JUST BECOME A NEVER ENDING EXCUSE AND ON GOING MISTAKES. THE PRIMISTER MUST STEP IN AND TAKE RESPOSABLITY!!

GIVE IPP PRISONERS AN END  DATE!!!!