IPP Committee In Action is a group of family members and friends of IPP prisoners. We have united together to try and get justice for IPP prisoners that have been unfairly sentenced to a life sentence through the back door for offences that would not warrant a life sentence.
Our mission is to get the Ministry Of Justice to do the right thing and give the sentenced IPPs (indeterminate sentences for public protection) the same justice as they did with the people who committed the same offenses as IPPs after it was abolished in 2012.
After 2012 these people who committed the same offenses as IPPs were given a determinate sentence and released and moved on with their lives, while IPP prisoners are trapped inside prison serving an abolished sentence.
We have collected 100 e-signatures from 100 Civil Society figures opposing the Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) to attach to the letter below which is addressed to the Secretary Of State For Justice Dominic Raab.
The IPP Sentence was abolished in 2012
1,498 PEOPLE SERVING IPP HAVE SERVED THEIR ORIGINAL SENTENCE.
As of 31st December
2023, there were 2,852 people in prison on an IPP sentence
This includes 1,227 who have never been released.
1,210 of unreleased Ipp are over tariff.
15 uNRELEASED IPP PRISONERS ARE UNDER TARIFF
1,625 ipp prisoners are recalled.
88 IPP PRISONERS HAVE TAKEN THEIR OWN LIVES BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT LIVE WITH THE UNCERTAINTY OF NEVER KNOWING IF OR WHEN THEY WOULD EVER BE RELEASED.
Below is a breakdown of the crimes that people were sentenced to the IPP sentence
IPP sentences could be given out for 153 specified offences. They were actually given out for 107 offences.
1882 were given for robbery offences (21.6%)
448 were given for fire setting offences (5.1%)
355 were given for other offences (4.1%)
232 were given for acquisitive offences (2.7%)
226 were given for weapons offences (2.6%)
11 were given for drug offences (0.1%)
Around 70 people were given an IPP sentence for offences where a life sentence is not available today, even as the maximum penalty.
BY 2026 THERE WILL BE OVER 4,000 IPP PRISONERS IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
Estimated.The recall rate outweighs the release rate.
The COST OF KEEPING THESE IPP PRISONERS IN PRISON LOCKED UP IS £125 Million PER YEAR.
our fight for justice
We Fight to get the IPP sentences abolished retrospectively.
We Involve families and IPP prisoners in everything that we do.
We Organise protests and letter writing.
We listen to people and keep everyone updated on any plans that we make for future events.
SUPPORT US
Do you know an IPP prisoner? Are you outraged by the injustice? Join the fight and help us put an end to this now.
urge your MP to join the fight and help end the IPP nightmare.
Please contact your MP and ask them to support EDM 352 by John McDonnell MP