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The law is gone but they are still in jail: who will free Britain’s most wronged prisoners?

Victoria was sentenced to 21 months but has served 15 years. Even the politician who introduced indefinite detention now says he regrets it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2023

'They have lost all hope': The 'scandal' jail sentence with a 'shameful' suicide rate behind the Strangeways roof protest

'The IPP sentence is a costly waste of money, and more importantly of human lives. The Government appears blind to the fact that all the indicators show IPP cannot simply be managed away': Neal Keeling reports on Britain's most controversial jail terms

Manchester Evening News · Apr 16, 2023

Keir Starmer breaks silence on 'gutter' attack adverts saying he makes 'zero apologies'

Labour has been heavily criticised following a series of adverts shared on Twitter attacking Rishi Sunak on crime - including one claiming he doesn't think paedophiles should be locked up

Daily Mirror · Apr 10, 2023

Yvette Cooper distances herself from Labour attack ads

Shadow home secretary was unaware of ad claiming Sunak doesn’t think child sex abusers should go to prison

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2023

Yvette Cooper was ‘not told’ about Labour’s Sunak attack ad in advance

Shadow home secretary was not consulted about the widely criticised advert that claims Rishi Sunak did not believe in jailing child abusers

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2023

Murdered teacher Sabina Nessa's sister joins calls to force killers to attend court

Labour former home secretary David Blunkett is among those urging change after Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s murderer Thomas Cashman refused to leave his cell to face the the nine-year-old’s family

Daily Mirror · Apr 5, 2023

Thousands of people like me are locked up with no fixed release date all because of New Labour’s political arms race

Nearly 3,000 of us are still in jail because of the infamous ‘imprisonment for public protection’ sentence, says author Terence Smith

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2023

‘The wounds don’t ever heal’: 30 years after James Bulger’s murder, Bootle cannot forget

In 1993, the UK was held in horror by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger. From the scene of his abduction to the youth justice system, the distress still reverberates

The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2023

Former education ministers attack plan to reduce vocational qualifications

Coalition fears DfE may break pledges that only small percentage of qualifications will be replaced by T-levels

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2023

Former Labour minister backs UK Government use of Section 35 order over gender reform

David Blunkett, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair, has waded into the gender reform row and backed the UK Government

The National (Scotland) · Jan 25, 2023