Advocating for justice: urging the release of IPP prisoners. Labour, it's time to act and rectify the mistake you made when creating this inhumane sentence.
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Why won’t Parliament back the IPP reform bill? Public safety concerns? It's time to put justice over fear. #EndIPP @Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @prison_reform @Channel4News @itvnews
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When discussing ipp resentencing in parliament about why they will not agree to re sentencing ipp’s, it was argued that they would be too mentally ill to be let out, is that not because of what the sentence has done to them?
We are just going around in circles here!
People are dying mentally and physically
So who’s taking the baton then? @JamesTCobbler
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Thank you so much @Fox_Claire for raising this important point about the impact IPP sentences can have on people. Many are punished further for the damaged caused by the sentence.
There are important reforms in the new Mental Health Bill creating nuance regarding the state's power to lock up very ill people. Good. But... I raised the issue of how over-diagnosis relating to the challenges of everyday life is draining resources from acute care. And on the misuse of prisons for people who are mentally ill, are many #IPP prisoners being sectioned by the back door?
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“How many more people will they watch die? If this Bill has problems, sit down and iron them out. Lie awake all night in turmoil like my mum and I do until it is perfect.”
Labour will have ‘blood on its hands’ if it rejects review of indefinite jail terms independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr…
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Over the past year I have spoken to countless families devastated by the IPP sentence.
This week Lord Thomas, formerly the country’s top judge, backed our @Independent campaign for a review of the ‘morally wrong’ indefinite terms.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr…
‘Where man obeys without being presumed good, there is neither liberty nor a native land’ @Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood
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#theforgottenipp’s
He started his day with a smile
Trying to be productive, it’s been a while
He often stared out the window dreaming of freedom..
He saw his peers come and go, not ever knowing when he’d go
He slept and prayed for his dreams to come true
He wished he knew @JamesTCobbler @UNGRIPP
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IPP if you're not aware of this go and find out.
Warning. It will make you f#cking angry.
Day 99 of a new government
There are 2,734 people in prison serving IPP today. It was abolished almost 12 years ago.
When is enough enough?
@Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @JamesTCobbler
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Day 100 of a new government
The white dots show the 2,734 people still in prison serving an IPP sentence
The red dots show the 90 people who’ve taken their own life in prison whilst serving an IPP sentence
When will it be enough?
@Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @JamesTCobbler
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Borrowed this letter from Ungripp. @ShabanaMahmood you dont have to challenge the Government now, you are the Government. You are in a very strong position as Secretary of State for Justice to end the IPP sentence once and for all. No excuses.
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Another death 💀 over ipp sentence mr blunket when will this end give ipp prisoners back their lives now
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It is good to see that all major channels are now running features on the tragic IPP.
bbc.com/news/articles/ckgv2q…
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Day 94 of a new government
Total people in prison serving IPP
- In 2020 - 3,276
- In 2024 - 2,734
Based on this, it will take at least another 20 years for everyone to be released from IPP.
@Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @JamesTCobbler
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In their latest refusal, the Parole Board admitted his Category A status was “interfering” with his progress in prison and urgently called for this to be reviewed. But six months later, no such review has taken place. @ShabanaMahmood
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The IPP Action plan is directly to blame for this and mentally IPPs are being given the personality disorder arbitrary construct, once IPPs are given this label they are referred to the PIPE course program. It exploits their mental health psychosis, and prevents correct diagnosis
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IPP prisoners languish in jail years over tariff while politicians sit on their hands.
The question for me is “where is our legal profession? Human rights lawyers? Campaigning journalists?”
It’s a moral desert.
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