UK Government Rejects Justice Committee’s Advice and Refuses to Review IPP Sentences

Committee chairman Bob Neill says many will remain in 'unsustainable limbo'

The sun shines through high security fencing surrounding Norwich prison in Norfolk, England, on Aug. 25, 2005. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The chairman of the House of Commons justice committee said he was “genuinely surprised” the Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, has rejected their recommendation to review the status of almost 3,000 prisoners who were being held under the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) system.

In September the committee recommended all 2,926 in England and Wales should be reviewed and said IPP was “irredeemably flawed.”