New IPP sentences were scrapped in 2012, but remain in place for around 2,800 people.
A coroner has written to the prisons minister raising concerns following the death of a prisoner serving an indeterminate ...
This must be a turning point in the fight to end indefinite detentions - THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Criminal Cases ...
MARIETTA — In an effort to curtail violent offenders leaving jail too soon and re-offending, a new Ohio law, which goes into effect on March 21, allows judges to give indefinite sentences with minimum ...
LIMA — A 2018 Ohio law that requires judges to sentence certain criminal offenders to indefinite prison sentences — and allows the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to hold inmates ...
The UK Ministry of Justice announced plans to reform Imprisonment for Public Protection (“IPP”) sentences. IPP sentences, originally intended to prevent offenders considered “dangerous” from being ...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Jill Edwards told The Guardian on Friday the UK Ministry of Justice’s reforms that would release many people subject to indefinite Imprisonment for Public ...