Critics expressed concern about the length of time IPP prisoners remain in jail beyond their tariff while the government window dress the issues.

 Bernie  lives in London. Those of you who attended the May IPP demonstration may remember her. Lately, she has started going to Hyde Park, Speaker's Corner on a Sunday to raise the injustice of the IPP sentence. I hope join her at some point in the near future. For those of you who live in or near London you could join her, too. If you would like to join her on Sunday Speakers Corner .

Bernie's Videos On This Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...


If you have an Event please print out and bring along our leaflet which has the web site and the petition

Rehabilitative culture?

Following a question raised on the ‘Ask Steve’ slot on the ‘Wayout TV’ prison channel – what is rehabilitative culture? The rubbish that HMPPS is now spouting on the matter has got me thinking. How can there be a rehabilitative culture when there are roughly 3,500 prisoners still serving the now-defunct arbitrary and unlawful IPP sentence which was scrapped in 2012 following an ECHR ruling?

Being incarcerated not for what they have done but for what they might do in the future, which is, basically, internment. So, what are we doing about all these IPP prisoners, most of them having served the maximum sentence for the crime they have committed and having completed every so-called offending behaviour programme repeatedly, only to get knocked back. Having to watch prisoners, some of whom will have committed far more serious crimes than them, getting determinate sentences with release dates given automatically, only to see them released and recalled and then released again.

How can there be a rehabilitative culture within the prison system? As Kenneth Clarke MP said, this sentence is a ‘stain on the British justice system’.

In 2017 Mps called for urgent reviews

The sentences were abolished in 2012 but not for existing prisoners, and critics have expressed concern about the length of time some less-serious offenders remain in jail beyond their tariff.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mps-calls-for-urgent-review-of-ipp-cases-in-yorkshire-prisons-1-8758440

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mps-calls-for-urgent-review-of-ipp-cases-in-yorkshire-prisons-1-8758440

Pepsi Watson was given an IPP sentence, now released he quit rightly wants answers. But why are those MP’s and government avoiding the subject of the continued incarceration of IPPs prisoners is questionable! I would like to see more like him making an impact to find the answers...

 His video:  https://www.pscp.tv/ippthetrilogy/1gqxvXgEbnlGB

PRISON ISLAND: A NEW REPORT ON PRISON EXPANSION IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND – DOWNLOAD NOW

BY CWTEMP / NEWS, PRISONS, SLIDER / 15 AUG 2018

This August, Corporate Watch is releasing its new report on prison expansion in England, Wales and Scotland: Prison Island. It shines a light on one of the biggest prison building programs in generations.

Read the latest research on:

• The Prison Estates Transformation Programme that aims to create 10,000 new prison places by 2020 through the construction of six mega prisons and five new ‘residential centres’ for women
• Detailed information about each of the proposed prisons and their locations
• Companies building the prisons
• The people behind the projects
• New prisons being built by the Scottish Prison Service, including a potential prison for people of non-binary gender
• The British Government’s attempts to build prisons abroad in Nigeria and Jamaica

The UK prison population has risen by 82% in the last 30 years. We are increasingly becoming a ‘prison island’, where state violence and imprisonment are used to maintain a divided society built on exploitation. England and Wales have the highest imprisonment rate in western Europe, with Scotland the third most imprisoning country.

This once-in-a-generation prison building programme represents a significant expansion of the repressive apparatus of the British state, entrenching the power of corporations in the criminal justice system even further. This report aims to document and contextualise this escalation in mass incarceration and provide information to support those fighting against it.

continued https://corporatewatch.org/new-prison-expansion-infographic/

Postdate Investigation into the Parole Board

The Osborn ruling in October 2013 had an immediate impact on the demand for oral hearings conducted by the Parole Board.

The National Audit Office has today published the findings from its investigation into the Parole Board (The Board). The Board is responsible for deciding whether prisoners can be safely released from prison and advising on movement between closed and open prisons across England and Wales. The NAO examined the Board in 2008 and made a number of recommendations to improve efficiency, in particular to address a backlog of outstanding cases. A Supreme Court ruling in 2013 (The Osborn ruling) broadened the circumstances in which the law requires the Board to hold an oral hearing. This led to an increase demand for oral hearings by the Board. The number of outstanding parole cases increased sharply, leading to increased delays and additional costs.

The key findings of the investigation are as follows:

• The Osborn ruling in October 2013 had an immediate impact on the demand for oral hearings conducted by the Board. There were 6,872 oral hearings conducted by the Board in 2014-15, an increase of 48% in comparison to 4,628 in 2012-13. Hearings increased to a high of 7,148 in 2015-16.
• The number of outstanding cases increased by more than 140% following the Osborn ruling. The Board had a backlog of cases for several years, but the number of outstanding cases increased by 143% from October 2013 to a peak of 3,163 in January 2015. Of the 2,117 oral cases outstanding in September 2016,
• The Board’s ability to reduce the number of outstanding cases is limited by the number of cases it is able to list in any month. For example, the Board listed 701 cases for oral hearings in September 2016, while the queue of cases waiting for a hearing date was 1,257. Once listed, 34% oral hearings were deferred, and more than half of these (21%) were deferred or adjourned on the day of the hearing.
• The increase in demand for oral hearings has meant that older and more complex cases have been less likely to be heard.
• At December 2016, 3,081 prisoners on indeterminate sentences  (IPPs) were in prison beyond their tariff expiry date.
• The Board has paid £1.1 million in compensation
•  In October 2015, the Board set a target to reduce outstanding cases to 1,200 by April 2017, but this level of outstanding cases does not reflect efficiencies it has made since 2013. In June 2016, the Board  to achieve this target to the end of 2017, and has so far not set out what it expects the level of outstanding cases to be after this.
• Under its new chair and chief executive, the Board launched a strategy to tackle the backlog in September 2016. The strategy includes aims to prioritise the safe release of IPP prisoners and to improve workflow by listing as many cases as possible and reducing unnecessary deferrals and adjournments but failed and dates keep continued to be moved the date.
• In 2016, the Ministry of Justice, on behalf of the Board, launched a major member recruitment exercise for the first time in four years. The Ministry did not recruit new members between 2012 and 2016.There is still major concerns and delays continue

 https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Investigation-into-the-Parole-Board.pdf

28 February 2017

Publication details:

ISBN: 9781786041074 [Buy a copy]

HC: 1013, 2016-17

Published date: February 28, 2017





POST DATE NEWS ON  IPP

COMMENTS

Watson‏ @ippthetrilogy Aug 27

IPP The New Labour death machine responsible for major loss of life exceeding the death toll of both Grenfell Tower & Hillsborough there is an ocean of blood on the hands of many and justice will be done will be seen to be done

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 Horton Sorry, I've now moved out of London, or I'd join her. I wish her great success in spreading the word about the iniquity of IPP sentences.

Biamonti That’s really amazing, thank you Bernie for speaking out, I’m the mother of someone serving this terrible sentence and I am most grateful to you! We should all share this on Facebook! Keep on raising awareness about it!

Bate I cannot make it but I'm with her all the way. My ipp was 3 and a half I did 10 years I feel like

Biamonti-bello I support you as the Auntie of my nephew enduring this unjust sentence so lots of luck

Carol Morgan Thankyou Bernie for sharing this unjust and inhumane sentence

Morgan Thankyou Bernie for sharing this unjust and inhumane sentence

Katherine Gleeson Thank you Bernie, amazing lady x

The sentences were abolished in 2012 but not for existing prisoners, and critics have expressed concern about the length of time some less-serious offenders remain in jail beyond their tariff.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mps-calls-for-urgent-review-of-ipp-cases-in-yorkshire-prisons-1-8758440

The sentences were abolished in 2012 but not for existing prisoners, and critics have expressed concern about the length of time some less-serious offenders remain in jail beyond their tariff.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mps-calls-for-urgent-review-of-ipp-cases-in-yorkshire-prisons-1-8758440

https://www.nao.org.uk/report/investigation-into-the-parole-board/

 https://insidetime.org/rehabilitative-culture/