How one man spent almost 20 years in jail as a result of a authorized loophole

Government figures this week are prone to present the jail inhabitants again to the place it was earlier than the final early launch scheme.

But regardless that tons of of prisoners have served solely 40% of their sentences, there’s a cohort of the jail inhabitants who’ve served prolonged sentences, years past their minimal time period.

IPP sentences, Imprisonment For Public Protection, have been launched in 2005 and abolished in 2012. But the regulation wasn’t back-dated, so the legacy of prisoners serving indefinite sentences continues.

Sky’s dwelling editor Jason Farrell speaks to 1 man who has spent a lot of his grownup life out and in of jail after committing an armed theft at a money level.

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