I have been Rob's partner and supported him through his time in prison under his IPP. I've worked around criminal justice and young people for many years in my career and I also run a project that links the people who have experienced custody with young people who are at risk of going into custody, I've managed a behavioural unit for young people and worked in the eduction department at a secure unit . I've set up this site and blog to raise awareness around IPP, show the impact it has not only on the IPP themselves but also on their families and those that support them; to give a voice and platform to many others and to assist in influencing the change that is so clearly needed regarding the IPP sentence.

I was sentenced in 2008 to an IPP sentence after a fight with an associate, I was 27 years old at the time and was living a life that involved drug use and alcohol abuse on an almost daily basis. I admitted guilt at the first possible instance and was fully accepting that my crime would carry a custodial sentence, I just never expected that it would carry a life sentence. Since my IPP sentence life has changed a lot, I'm now in a steady long-term relationship, I'm a father and I have had positive employment. I have made mistakes and I still have things to work on however the IPP sentence and indeterminate recall that is associated with it makes it almost impossible to live a normal family life and become a permanent member of my community, all I want is to be treated fairly and to be given the chance to move on from a crime I committed when I was 27 that at the time would have carried a 7 year sentence had the IPP not been available.  

My name is Ash and I’m the partner to an IPP and mum to 3 wonderful children. My partner received an IPP in 2005 and is currently on a recalled sentence.

Why I am starting this campaign is one of many reasons, since meeting my partner and learning about IPP I have, on my journey met such a variety of people, some are friends of prisoners, some are children, some are family members, each and every one of them is wanting to fight their cause.

My fight behind this campaign is not to free my IPP, my reason is driven by the many people I have met and spoken with, hearing their struggles and frustration that although IPP was abolished their lives were still blighted by it as it had not been done retrospectively.

Our campaign is not about freeing our own IPP’s, for me it’s about a voice being heard for those IPP’s left behind, the forgotten. 

The campaign is about promoting awareness, about fighting for justice, for pushing for reassessment of current IPP’on an individual basis for what’s right. 

My names Tasha Maroni and I’m a sister to an IPP prisoner, sentenced in 2006 who is still currently serving his sentence.

I have worked with young offenders and the probation service as well as young adults with learning disabilities.

I helped to set up a charity in April 2018 with the homeless and vulnerable community in Cheshire and also set up the first social supermarket in the local area. I left the charity in 2019 to support my brother and to support my disabled son who has severe autism and learning disabilities.

I have joined this team to raise awareness for all IPP prisoners and especially the ones who have no family members to fight for them.

My name is Amee Patel and I am a prison law solicitor who has been working with prisoners for over 10 years. The majority number of my clients are IPP prisoners and ironically even though this has historically been part of the justice system, unfortunately I cannot say it carries any justice especially for those who are sentenced to a tariff of below 4 years. In my experience the IPP sentence has left these men in a hopeless sense of despair. With no end date it has gone on to break them down year by year as so many continue to do twice, three or four times the minimum tariff set. Many have no support in the community and as their representative I carry the weight of their world on my shoulders as a way to try and get them through each day. All my clients are a part of me, I keep in touch with all my IPP release prisoners and am passionate about finally finding justice for those hard done by this inhumane, abolished sentence.