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UN torture tsar attacks UK over ‘inhumane’ indefinite jail terms

Exclusive: The UN special rapporteur on torture has warned the British government is ‘very likely’ breaching IPP prisoners’ human rights

The Independent UK

Father on indefinite jail term for stealing phone has ‘lost hope’ after being denied hospital transfer

Thomas White’s MP James Frith has backed The Independent’s campaign for all IPP prisoners to have their sentences reviewed after visiting HMP Manchester

The Independent UK

Father who set himself alight on indefinite jail term refused hospital care as family loses hope

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Thomas White, who has developed paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis after serving almost 13 years for stealing a phone, will not be transferred to hospital

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Father-of-two on the run over indefinite prison sentence appeals to justice secretary to intervene

Matthew Booth has been recalled to prison multiple times for a crime he commited when he was 15, due to his IPP sentence

The Independent UK

‘My brother died because of a false allegation’: Publican took his own life after indefinite jail term recall

Exclusive: Despite nine years successfully rebuilding his life, IPP prisoner Haydar Jefferies was hauled back to jail over a false allegation, his family says, before he took his own life amid a string of prison failures

The Independent UK

Jailed without hope: Ministers block 128 prisoners on indefinite jail terms from moving to open conditions

Exclusive: The British government refused to allow IPP prisoners to progress to an open prison in 61 per cent of cases over the past 12 months, figures show

The Independent UK

‘90 people have taken their own lives already. How many more do they want?’ The Labour peer taking on the scandal of ‘99-year’ sentences

Indeterminate sentences were scrapped in 2012 – but thousands of prisoners are still serving them, often for petty crimes, with no hope of release. Could there now be hope of resentencing?

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Delays and neglect led to death of prisoner serving IPP sentence, jury finds

Inquest concludes that Haydar Jefferies took his own life after Surrey prison’s ‘serious failure’ to put him in place of safety

The Guardian - UK

Olympic champion Roje Stona leaves discus to attempt NFL career

Olympic discus champion Roje Stona is the latest high-profile athlete to switch sports and attempt to establish a career in the NFL

The Guardian - US

NRL convert among Australia's latest NFL hopefuls

Newcastle development player and former North Queensland winger Laitia Moceidreke will join Wallaby Jordan Petaia in an international NFL talent camp.

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Petaia chasing NFL dream sparked by Super Bowl memories

Super Bowls, skipping school and former Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu helped put rugby star Jordan Petaia on a path to a potential NFL call-up.

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Resentencing of prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms not ‘adequately explored’, committee warns

The justice committee says ministers ‘may have misunderstood’ their advice and urged them to look again at establishing a resentencing committee for thousands of IPP prisoners

The Independent UK

Family urges Streeting to help prisoner who set himself alight after serving 12 years for stealing phone

IPP prisoner Thomas White’s family have begged for Wes Streeting to intervene as they fight for him to be moved to hospital

The Independent UK

Is there any hope that IPP prisoners will be released by this government?

POLITICS EXPLAINED: As the topic of indefinite sentences is debated in the Lords, Sean O’Grady assesses the likelihood that those still held under this disgraceful and uncivilised system will ever be granted freedom

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‘Don’t be on wrong side of history’: Indefinite jail terms compared to Post Office and Infected Blood scandals

Supporters say the government’s response to the ‘industrial-scale miscarriage of justice’ is not good enough, and praised The Independent for highlighting the issue

The Guardian - UK

Peers say not reforming IPP sentences could cause another Post Office scandal

Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones

Evening Standard

Prisoners held on indefinite terms should have sentences reviewed, peers told

Lord Tony Woodley says people still being held on abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences are subjected to miscarriages of justice.

The Independent UK

Teenager jailed for 2 years over fire in empty building still locked up 18 years later

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Liam Bennett, now 36, has spent more than half of his life in prison as he pleas for a chance at freedom

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Stop scaremongering over prisoners trapped by indefinite jail terms, ministers told

Exclusive: Fight for indefinitely held IPP prisoners continues as the UN calls for partial resentencing, warning ‘we cannot allow more people to take their lives out of a lack of action’

The Independent UK

Fishmongers’ Hall hero warns of more IPP prisoner suicides as he is finally freed from indefinite jail term

Marc Conway, who helped tackle a terrorist wearing a fake suicide vest, has backed The Independent’s campaign for all IPP prisoners to have their sentences reviewed

The Independent UK

‘Torturous’ indefinite jail term robbed son of whole adult life before he died in a cell at 34, mother says

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Josh Mcrae missed 17 Christmases with his mother Theresa, who has gifts for every year he was jailed

The Guardian - UK

The IPP sentencing scandal has left hundreds locked up without hope. When will Labour free them?

England and Wales abolished these draconian sentences in 2012 – but our crumbling prisons still hold offenders trapped in horrifying stasis , says journalist Francisco Garcia

Evening Standard

Reforms signal end to hundreds of long-abolished indefinite prison sentences

IPP sentences were introduced in 2005 to prevent serious offenders who did not warrant a life sentence being released when they still posed a danger.

The Independent UK

‘He’s been punished enough’: Family’s plea for prisoner who set himself alight under indefinite jail term

Exclusive: On the day 1,800 released IPP prisoners will finally have their lifetime licence terminated, Thomas White is still fighting for a hospital bed as his mental health deteriorates

The Guardian - UK

Five still in jail 16 years after being given IPP sentences of below six months, data shows

Exclusive: ‘Horrendous’ MoJ figures show some prisoners given indeterminate sentences in England and Wales before 2008 still behind bars

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