Overview

• The Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, abolished in 2012, continue to affect nearly 3,000 prisoners who were sentenced before the law changed.
• A new report reveals that 86 prisoners on IPP sentences have committed suicide, with a record nine suicides occurring in 2023 alone.
• Labour peer Tony Woodley has introduced a bill seeking to convert IPP sentences into determinate sentences, but it lacks government support.
• Conservative peers argue that resentencing could lead to the release of dangerous offenders, posing a risk to public safety.
• Recent reforms have ended license conditions for some rehabilitated IPP offenders, but over 1,000 prisoners remain incarcerated without a release date.