It’s been described as a "massive mistake" by its architect Lord David Blunkett.
Called sentences of imprisonment for public protection, IPPs were open-ended prison sentences intended for the most serious offenders who posed a significant risk of serious harm to the public – but whose crimes did not warrant a life term.
But thousands of those prisoners now remain incarcerated on open-ended prison sentences under the now-defunct scheme.
Sky News spoke to those families fighting to get their loved ones released.
Read more on this here – https://news.sky.com/story/11-years-for-stealing-a-mobile-phone-inside-the-lives-of-ipp-prisoners-serving-sentences-of-psychological-torture-12965479
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