The UK government has rejected a call for prisoners detained indefinitely to be resentenced, in a move criticised as a “missed opportunity to right a wrong” by the chair of the justice committee. IPP sentences were officially scrapped in 2012. He added the “blanket refusal” to consider resentencing the prisoners “suggests we have a Ministry of Justice in name only”. Shirley Debono, from the IPP Committee in Action campaign group, said she feared the mental health of prisoners would deteriorate as a result of government inaction, with research showing high levels of self-harm and some suicides among IPP prisoners. “If they don’t resentence the IPP prisoners, there’s nowhere else to go.
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