FREE JASON HENRY GRANT!
Calling on everyone whether you know Jason or not, he needs your help.  Jason has just started his 9th year in prison, after receiving an IPP sentence. The judge recommend he serve a minimum of 3years and 3months, he is now almost 6 years over that minimum tariff. He did break the law, but he's not a dangerous criminal and he has paid for what he did in many ways. Jason found out a few weeks ago that he has terminal Stomach Cancer and has been given a very short time to live, 2-3 months without chemo and 8 months with chemo. Jason really wants to spend his last months at home with his family, so his quick release would be a great benefit to him. This is why he is asking every body to sign his petition and help get him home to his family. We will be organising a campaign on his behalf and will need as much support as we can possibly get. Thank you for taking the time to read this and for your support, please share this and help Jason to come home so he can be cared for by his mother and father in the family home he was born in 46 years ago. It's filled with happy memories of his childhood, and all the new memories that have been made there in his absense, Jason wants to spend his last months with his children, grand children and the rest of his family at home. Please help Jason to gain compassionate release. Thank you so much, on behalf of Jason Henry Grant.

To:
David Cameron, Prime Minister
Stephen Bradford, Governor at HMS Mount Prison
David Gauke, MP
Theresa May, MP

Please release terminally ill Jason Henry Grant from prison....He has served almost 9 years on an IPP sentence, the judge recommeded he serve a minimum of 3 years and 3 months on his sentence, that has been served along with all recommended classes. Jason has served his time with minimal issues.
Jason has recently been told the very sad news that he has terminal Stomach Cancer and given 2-3... 

 

 

Petition link 

 http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/david-cameron-release-terminally-ill-jason-henry-grant-from-prison?share_id=McfCVFWDwx&utm_campaign=friend_inviter_chat&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=permissions_dialog_false

 

 letter writing .  The Queen also exercises the prerogative of mercy, by which the Sovereign may, for example, grant free or conditional pardons or remit penalties, on the advice of her Ministers.

Let your MP recognise that several of your constituents have written to their Mp’s asking if they are prepared to sign proposed reform for the IPP, but he appears not to have signed yet. Please urge him to sign this EDM , which will have received support from MPs from all parties and which now has willing signatories from all political parties. I hope that you will consider this issue carefully. And I hope that you will take this issue as seriously as I do.

·                   SUMMERISEING

 There has been much improvement for ISP/IPP prisoners since the sentence was abolished in December 2012. Several people from the IPP Campaign Face Book pages have posted letters from their MPs or from the Justice department where it is clearly stated that IPPs are given priority when it comes to courses AND that (and maybe more importantly) approved courses ARE NOT the only way to show compliance with sentence and/or reduced risk. There are other ways to do this including doing vocational courses. More ISP /IPP prisoners are being re-categorised and thus working their way towards open conditions – the final test before release.

·                      For example; Chris Grayling responded below to a question that one FB Group member submitted to an open question debate earlier this year:  “prisoners currently ... serving IPP sentences will not be released unless the Parole Board authorises it, as now. However, I know there is concern that those currently serving IPP sentences should be supported in progressing through their sentence and reducing their risk. We will be using our best efforts to improve the progression of these prisoners through sentence, including improvements to assessment, sentence planning and delivery, and parole review processes and will continue to monitor outcomes to ensure further improvements in this area.”

·                     Despite this, there are people over tariff who achieved everything they have been asked to yet still are not released. We want the government to review these cases and release these people where they are no longer perceived to be a risk to the public. (We know this excludes individuals who have not complied with their sentence plans, or have related adjudications which have gone against again them, or have not complied in other ways; from this group).

·                     Despite the improvements outlined above, for many ISP/IPP prisoners’, progression through their sentence is still too slow; and where this can be improved by providing more courses; programmes and alternative activities, or more Parole Board hearings we would ask that this is done. Keeping people in prison unnecessarily is costly to the taxpayer; to the State, and emotionally costly to the prisoners’ themselves and their families.

·         We feel that the courses ISP/IPP prisoners are required to undertake and complete are not always suitable for every prisoner. The 'one size fits all' isn't always the best for everyone. Some prisoners have learning difficulties, literacy problems or emotional problems. In these cases it might be better to offer education, support and counselling rather than extra courses to help them progress through the system and complete their sentence plan. Group learning isn't the best situation for everyone either, some people may benefit from individual lessons. Understandably, the needs of the prisoner must be a priority, on release they may cope better and have a lower risk of re-offending if they come out genuinely improved and better educated than when they went in and not just able to complete a course because they've been made to.

·         Parole Board hearings should be more transparent. That is, there should be clear communication to the ISP/IPP prisoner about why they haven’t been re-categorised or recommended to open conditions or for release. By doing this ISP/IPP prisoners’ know what is expected of them and prisoners’ families can support them in these renewed expectations.

·                     The Government wants to save £4,000.000 by removing legal aid to serving prisoners. The changes to legal aid means there will be less legal representation for ALL prisoners including ISP/IPPs. As the Intervene Project has written:

“ ...it has been proposed that they (prisoners including ISP/IPPs) should not have access to legal representation in most areas and that they will have to rely on the internal complaints procedure in all circumstances excluding parole reviews, external adjudications and miscalculated release dates. At the same time, they will be prevented from mounting challenges by judicial review. This leaves them in the hands of the Prison and Probation Ombudsman which has been frequently criticised. The Ombudsman does not have capacity to deal with urgent matters, their recommendations are not binding and they cannot substitute the court as an alternative remedy for prisoners.” So, there will be no legal representation via legal aid for our ISP/IPPs for re-categorisation or pre-tariff reviews. ISP/IPPs are a particularly vulnerable group of prisoners and will be particularly hard hit by these changes.

·          We have concerns about the life licence conditions on release for ISP/IPP prisoners. 10 years licence is the statutory minimum. The Parole Board can agree to remove these licence conditions after this period and the ISP/IPP can reapply yearly thereafter, if refused, initially.  Most other sentenced prisoners’ licence expires at half or two thirds of their tariff (depending upon when they were sentenced). If people on an ISP/IPP sentence have been released; they have been deemed no longer a risk to the public, then their licence conditions should be the same as other prisoners on determinate sentences, with only a few exceptional cases.

·          Finally, we have concerns about the high numbers of recalls for ISP prisoners.

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16 March  on wards

Public event  to write to our MP other  to sign the Early day motion 1254

RELEASE OF PRISONERS SERVING INDETERMINATE SENTENCES FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION
Session: 2013-14 Date tabled: 02.04.2014 Primary sponsor: Llwyd, Elfyn
Sponsors:
My Mp Hopkins, Kelvin
Edwards, Jonathan
Bottomley, Peter
Flynn, Paul
Stunell, Andrew

Total number of signatures: 9
Bottomley, Peter Dobbin, Jim Edwards, Jonathan Flynn, Paul
Hopkins, Kelvin Kaufman, Gerald Leech, John Llwyd, Elfyn
Stunell, Andrew

That this House notes that at the end of January 2014, 5,335 prisoners in the UK were still serving indeterminate sentences for public protection, which were abolished by the Government in 2012; further notes that 3,561 of these prisoners had already passed their tariff and that, since the Parole Board releases roughly 400 inmates every year, it will take nine years for the Board to clear this backlog of cases; further notes with dismay that many prisoners serving indeterminate sentences fail to gain places on appropriate courses which would progress their rehabilitation and that as a result such prisoners have little hope of release; recognises that 24 prisoners serving indeterminate sentences have committed suicide whilst in custody; further notes that each prison place costs £40,000 every year, making indeterminate sentences highly costly; and calls on the Government to increase funding to the Parole Board to clear the backlog of indeterminate prisoners, starting with those given initial tariffs of two years or less.

Mp,s can table what is called an Early Day Motion and it does not have to be your MP
(EDM).

Early Day Motions are one way in which backbench MPs can record their support for particular issues and campaigns.  The most successful motions give rise to debates in Parliament, changes in Government policy and changes in the law.

 Ask your Member of Parliament are they willing to  support the motion concerning the IPP now tabled.

Now tabled, MPs can sign the EDM to show their support. The significant issue, tell your MP about the IPP so that he or she can be made aware of it and if they see fit, show wiliness to sign the motion, giving their support.
 Let your MP recognise that several of your constituents have written to their Mp’s asking if they are prepared to  sign  proposed reform for the IPP, but he appears not to have signed yet. Please urge him to sign this EDM , which will hacve received support from MPs from all parties and which now has willing signatories from all political parties. I hope that you will consider this issue carefully. And I hope that you will take this issue as seriously as I do.
Additionally thank them if they have already showed willingness  to  signed! If you have already written to Mp point out one issue that may have concerned him in his reluctance further point out the recent events at parliament, and media cover.
You can also direct your MP to the Petition page or other which gives info on the IPP .The  ipp sentence is clear, the sentence is wrong give your  MP a reminder outlining  how important it is  you  to have an  Early Day Motions, know tabled  these   changes will help your Son or daughter to come home.

If you don’t already know, you can find out who represents you in parliament through a web site that lists all of the MPs in the UK. Click on www.theyworkforyou.com and simply enter your postcode to find out the name of your representative. Contact them in writing, by email, or by going and meeting them.                                                                              They work for you, so it is important to use your constituent powers, and to ask them if they would be willing to support the motion.

EDMs are motions which can be signed by MPs to show their support.  In the past they have not been debated but the Speaker has said that this may change especially for those signed by many MPs from all parties.  They are printed and available to MPs and Staff in the House of Commons and make interesting reading on all subjects.

Information about EDMs is available on line at www.parliament.uk or edmi.parliament.uk so you can see if your MP has signed up.  Ministers and shadow ministers may not feel able to sign as EDMs are for backbenchers primarily but they can write to the Secretary of State and ask him to take up the issue.

 “””WRITE TO YOUR FRIENDS TOO AND ASK THEM TO WRITE TO THEIR MPs or  archbishop other even your queen being it is a her prison  ”” if a supporter OF THE ipp you can write to your MP too or other  .Thank you in advance for your support.

Signatures?
In an average session only six or seven EDMs reach over two hundred signatures. Around seventy or eighty get over one hundred signatures. The majority will attract only one or two signatures.

Who will not sign?
The following people in Parliament normally will not sign EDMs:
Ministers and government whips
Parliamentary Private Secretaries
The Speaker and his deputies

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Each difference makes us, a people of variety. It is this difference, this variety, that gives life its wonderful mystery and challenge.

For when times get hard we all need to buckle down and help each other. We need courage to make it through hard times, but we need each other to carry us for some days we all need someone to go in search for us. Yes our lives may be different, but what makes us similar is our determination ….we need each other because we have a similar bond.
Our differences should make us reach out to one another. They should bring us closer together in order to learn from and about each other. The experienced as soon as we realized that each of us is a piece of a puzzle and, that without each other, we would make the picture incomplete.

Early Day Motion
Letter writing Campaign I think it will be a great way to support and encourage each other and a way to follow the responses of MP’s! An idea to list members friends and supporters prepared to write to their MP,s.
My local Mp Kevin Hopkins stating in his letter he is willing to put forward in Parliament an early day motion concerning the IPP. This is a starting point. Mp,s can table what is called an Early Day Motion (EDM).

Early Day Motions are one way in which backbench MPs can record their support for particular issues and campaigns. The most successful motions give rise to debates in Parliament, changes in Government policy and changes in the law.

Ask your Member of Parliament are they willing to support a motion concerning the IPP when it is tabled.

At a lather date once submitted, MPs can sign the EDM to show their support. The significant issue, tell your MP about the IPP so that he or she can be made aware of it and if they see fit, show wiliness to sign the motion, giving their support.

Once tabledlLet your MP recognise that several of your constituents have written to their Mp’s asking if they are prepared to sign proposed reform for the IPP, but he appears not to have signed yet. Please urge him to sign this EDM , which will hacve received support from MPs from all parties and which now has willing signatories from all political parties. I hope that you will consider this issue carefully. And I hope that you will take this issue as seriously as I do.

Additionally thank them if they have already showed willingness to signed! If you have already written to Mp point out one issue that may have concerned him in his reluctance further point out the recent events at parliament, and media cover.
You can also direct your MP to the Petition page or other which gives info on the IPP .The ipp sentence is clear, the sentence is wrong give your MP a reminder outlining how important it is you to have an Early Day Motions, and once tabled these changes will help your Son or daughter home.

If you don’t already know, you can find out who represents you in parliament through a web site that lists all of the MPs in the UK. Click on www.theyworkforyou.com and simply enter your postcode to find out the name of your representative. Contact them in writing, by email, or by going and meeting them. They work for you, so it is important to use your constituent powers, and to ask them if they would be willing to support the motion.

EDMs are motions which can be signed by MPs to show their support. In the past they have not been debated but the Speaker has said that this may change especially for those signed by many MPs from all parties. They are printed and available to MPs and Staff in the House of Commons and make interesting reading on all subjects.

Information about EDMs is available on line at www.parliament.uk or edmi.parliament.uk so you can see if your MP has signed up. Ministers and shadow ministers may not feel able to sign as EDMs are for backbenchers primarily but they can write to the Secretary of State and ask him to take up the issue.

“””WRITE TO YOUR FRIENDS TOO AND ASK THEM TO WRITE TO THEIR MPs”” if a supporter OF THE ipp you can write to your MP too .Thank you in advance for your support.

Signatures?
In an average session only six or seven EDMs reach over two hundred signatures. Around seventy or eighty get over one hundred signatures. The majority will attract only one or two signatures.

Who will not sign?
The following people in Parliament normally will not sign EDMs:
Ministers and government whips
Parliamentary Private Secretaries
The Speaker and his deputies
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i am sorry for the delay bring you up dated info it was due to  rights issues  i am back again posting.

Psychological torture

From Big John - HMP Guys Marsh

I read a letter in your January issue concerning IPP sentences and containing direct quotations from the late Rudolph Hess, who explained how such sentences were used as a tool to break people who opposed the Nazi party back in the 1930s. I am preparing an application to the ECHR and intend to use this letter as an indicator that the government must have been aware of the effect the IPP could have before its introduction back in 2005! I would like to point out to other over-tariff IPPs that Article 3 of the ECHR says 'whoever perceives themselves to be a victim of torture' is, in fact, protected by the Act.
For the authorities to keep moving the goalposts, adding objectives and the psychological stress we are forced to endure due to a type of sentence previously used by the Nazis (no less!), we are, in fact, victims of torture, albeit psychological. By keeping us in 'preventative detention' using this method we now ALL have grounds to proceed with cases against the government because they cannot dispute the previous documented use of this sentence by an 'evil regime', it is a tool designed to break people's minds! So I encourage all IPPs to get in touch with human rights groups, lawyers or campaigners and fight against our continuous suffering.
Read article: Black mark on the name of British justice

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Psychological torture

From Big John - HMP Guys Marsh

I read a letter in your January issue concerning IPP sentences and containing direct quotations from the late Rudolph Hess, who explained how such sentences were used as a tool to break people who opposed the Nazi party back in the 1930s. I am preparing an application to the ECHR and intend to use this letter as an indicator that the government must have been aware of the effect the IPP could have before its introduction back in 2005! I would like to point out to other over-tariff IPPs that Article 3 of the ECHR says 'whoever perceives themselves to be a victim of torture' is, in fact, protected by the Act.
For the authorities to keep moving the goalposts, adding objectives and the psychological stress we are forced to endure due to a type of sentence previously used by the Nazis (no less!), we are, in fact, victims of torture, albeit psychological. By keeping us in 'preventative detention' using this method we now ALL have grounds to proceed with cases against the government because they cannot dispute the previous documented use of this sentence by an 'evil regime', it is a tool designed to break people's minds! So I encourage all IPPs to get in touch with human rights groups, lawyers or campaigners and fight against our continuous suffering.
Read article: Black mark on the name of British justice