My brother stole a mobile phone - 14 years on he’s facing prison again with no release date Exclusive: Thomas White is being sent back to prison indefinitely after nine months in secure hospital The Independent UK · Jul 26
Long-term solutions to the Prison Service crisis Letters: Prof Ian Pickup on prison education, Henry Rossi on resentencing IPP prisoners, Andrew RC McLellan on earlier release and Dr Rod Earle on a lesson from 1930s Red Vienna The Guardian - UK · Jul 16
Britain accused of ‘serious human rights violations’ over failure to end indefinite jail terms Experts have called for the government to urgently resentence almost 2,400 remaining IPP prisoners The Independent UK · Jul 16
‘I’m so desperate to be freed from prison that I’ve renounced my British citizenship’ Exclusive: Nicholas Bidar has renounced his British citizenship after losing all hope of being freed from his IPP jail term The Independent UK · Jul 5
Indigenous-run business quotas target 'black cladding' Strict new measures aim to stop companies pretending to be Indigenous to benefit from procurement programs targeting First Nations businesses. AAP · Jul 1
‘I just can’t do it anymore’: Prisoner wrote note blaming ‘cruel’ indefinite jail term before he was found dead Exclusive: Steven McBride’s sister has spoken of her anguish after an inquest found he felt ‘trapped, hopeless and frustrated’ on an IPP jail term The Independent UK · Jun 26
‘The torture continues’: Father who robbed phone 20 years ago recalled to prison after anonymous phone call Shaun Lloyd – whose case is being reviewed by the UN – has not been arrested, interviewed or charged but is facing years more behind bars on an IPP sentence he was handed as a teenager The Independent UK · Jun 25
Ministers urged to end ‘catastrophic cycle’ of open-ended IPP recalls Exclusive: More £64million is spent each year locking up IPP prisoners recalled to prison indefinitely despite committing no further crime, campaigners estimate The Independent UK · May 20
Uar Bernard: the ‘rarest physical specimen’ who exposes the NFL’s scouting flaws The Philadelphia Eagles selected the Nigerian defensive lineman before he had even played a down of football. More teams should take risks on global talent The Guardian - US · May 7
‘My son was torn from my arms and I was sent back to prison for crime I didn’t commit’ JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Indefinite jail terms were scrapped in 2012, but continue to tear families apart. Amy-Clare Martin follows the harrowing case of a mother separated from her son over the constant threat of recall for a petty crime she committed 20 years ago The Independent UK · May 3
Teen trapped for 20 years on indefinite jail term should have served 18 months, judges rule Jay Davis is among six prisoners languishing on IPP jail terms to have their sentences quashed last week The Independent UK · Apr 28
‘Shameless cruelty’: Father held under indefinite jail term for stealing phone faces being sent back to prison Exclusive: Devastated relatives say Thomas White, who has served 14 years stealing a mobile phone, has been told he is going back to prison without a release date The Independent UK · Mar 24
IPP prisoners subjected to ‘inhuman treatment’ under ‘dystopian’ UK system, major report to UN warns ‘The UK cannot hypocritically stand against despotic regimes when its own systems are so dystopian,’ a report on the plight of eight prisoners on indefinite jail terms said The Independent UK · Feb 25
‘I have given them 21 years of my life, now they want my soul’: IPP prisoner jailed for stealing £20 could be deported in days Exclusive: Sheldon Coore, who has lived in Britain since he was a toddler, has been moved to an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport ahead of his deportation to Jamaica The Independent UK · Feb 22
The Independent UK · Feb 17 Britain’s IPP scandal must end – it cannot be salvaged by any ‘action plan’ THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The government’s attempt to fix this failed system will only heap further misery on those whose lives it has shattered – it is time to bring this terrible nightmare to a just end
The Independent UK · Feb 17 Secret prison documents show government plan to tackle IPP scandal will fail Exclusive: Damning projections reveal the government’s action plan to progress IPP prisoners is a ‘failure’, which will leave at least 500 prisoners languishing without release 18 years after the sentence was abolished
The Independent UK · Jan 31 One man’s struggle lights up a wider scandal THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: We urge ministers to read Haroon Ahmed’s story and to summon the courage to end the injustice of indefinite sentences for 2,400 other prisoners
The Independent UK · Jan 31 ‘I was like a hostage. After almost 18 years on an indefinite jail term, they finally admitted my IPP sentence was wrong’ JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Exclusive: Haroon Ahmed, whose indefinite jail term was quashed in the Court of Appeal, says IPP prisoners are ‘hostages’ who have grown from teenagers to men watching more dangerous offenders be released, Amy-Clare Martin reports
The Independent UK · Jan 28 This must be a turning point in the fight to end indefinite detentions THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Criminal Cases Review Commission is right to refer five IPP prisoners to the appeal courts – Vera Baird’s decision must now be a spur to ministers to finally do the right thing
The Independent UK · Jan 28 New hope for IPP prisoners as five men held on indefinite jail terms referred to appeal courts IPP prisoner Luke Ings, who served more than 18 years after he was jailed for robbery and a fight in McDonald’s aged just 17, is among the cases up for review by judges
The Independent UK · Jan 21 ‘I’ve spent almost 20 years in prison for robbing £20. Now the UK wants to deport me to a country I’ve never called home’ Exclusive: IPP prisoner Sheldon Coore, 47, says he is being punished ‘twice and thrice and even tenfold’
The Independent UK · Jan 10 Imprisoned indefinitely for stealing a phone? End this injustice, prime minister THE INDEPENDENT’S VIEW: Editorial: The discredited law of open-ended sentencing was abolished as ‘unjust’ 14 years ago, yet it continues to blight lives and overwhelm prisons. Ending IPP injustice for the 2,400 prisoners still denied a release date is not about being soft on crime – it is about upholding…
The Independent UK · Jan 10 Britain’s former top judge tells Starmer: Make things right on cruel indefinite jail terms Lord Thomas compares scandal to Post Office and infected blood sagas – as he calls on PM to scrap ‘unjust’ indefinite jail terms highlighted by The Independent
The Independent UK · Jan 1 Driven to mental ill-health: The 233 prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms in secure hospitals JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Exclusive: After years languishing on indefinite jail terms, hundreds of prisoners have experienced a deterioration in their mental health to the point where they need hospital care. But when they get better, many will be back where they started: in jail with no release…
The Independent UK · Dec 31, 2025 Fresh proposals for panel of judges to reconsider cases of every IPP prisoner Lords have tabled fresh proposals in a bid to convince Labour to help almost 2,500 prisoners trapped on cruel indefinite jail terms