Elizabeth Truss to use her powers of executive clemency in the cases of 500 IPPs

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Elizabeth Truss to use her powers of executive clemency in the cases of 500 IPPs

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prisoners serving (IPP) were "languishing in jail". IPP sentences, abolished in 2012, were having a serious effect on prisoners' mental health.
More than 3,800 prisoners are serving indeterminate IPP sentences, designed to protect the public

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Truss to resume prison officer talks
Of those, 500 should be let go, former Justice Secretary Michael Gove said, when he delivered the annual Longford lecture in memory of prison reformer Lord Longford.

Mr Gove said executive clemency should be granted to release prisoners who had served far longer than the tariff for their offence and had now - after multiple parole reviews - served even longer than the maximum determinate sentence for that offence.

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