Britain's Shameful Treatment of Prisoners Must Finally Come to an End The news that Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ordered a review into indefinite jail terms, known as Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), is a long overdue recognition of the inhumane treatment that thousands of prisoners have endured.
The IPP system, which was scrapped in 2012 but left many hundreds to languish in prison without a release date, has been condemned by human rights groups and even acknowledged as "a stain on British justice" by Lord Thomas, the former Lord Chief Justice.
For decades, prisoners like Leroy Douglas, Abdullahi Suleman, and Shaun Anton Lloyd have been trapped inside, serving sentences for petty crimes that would barely warrant a slap on the wrist in modern times.