The prisoner, who served 18 years after being sentenced to 23 months in prison, expressed his desperation for a “normal life” as he made his seventh bid to escape an indefinite prison sentence. Wayne Williams was imprisoned at the age of 17 for attempting to injure a police officer in a fight. When he was… Read More »
When Jacqueline Ali arrived at HMP Long Lartin to see her eldest son, she gasped when she saw the man on the other side of the bars. Her witty, happy son, who had once dreamed of getting out of prison and starting a floristry business, was curled up on the floor of a cramped cell… Read More »
A senior coroner has been sentenced to indefinite prison after condemning the “inhumane” and “indefensible” treatment of a man who killed himself over 17 years. Milton Keynes senior coroner Tom Osborne said Scott Rider gave up hope of being released before committing suicide at HMP Woodhill in June 2022. He was serving an public protection… Read More »
The first IPP prisoner to publicly announce his request for parole revealed how every day of a sentence without a release date is “torture”. Controversial imprisonment sentences (IPP) for public protection were abolished in 2012 due to human rights concerns, but this was not done retroactively and thousands of people were left to languish in… Read More »
“I’m stuck in a never-ending cycle where suicide is probably the only way out.” These were the devastating words of a man struggling under an indeterminate sentence who cried out for help to justice minister Alex Chalk. Matthew Price, 48, was sentenced to public protection (IPP) with a minimum tariff of three years in 2010… Read More »