PRT comment: UN calls on UK government to end IPP sentences

Commenting on the renewed call from UN Experts to the United Kingdom that it should undertake an urgent review and re-sentencing exercise for individuals still subject to Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences today (16 July), Mark Day, deputy director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The UN’s intervention should be a wake-up call to the government to redouble its efforts to…