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Year in year out

Year in year out

 


I’m writing this letter to express my feelings around my IPP sentence. Back in 2006 I received an IPP for a section 18 assault. I deserved to go to prison for what I done. I got released in 2012 six years later, that was 4 years over my tariff without any incidents.

Date
16th July 2020
Author
Serving IPP Prisoner

A perfect 10

A Perfect 10

 


Never doing any good in school, never sitting any GCSEs, never really conforming well to society’s rules, what will help him?

Date
15th May 2020
Author
Sara on behalf of Rob

My Frustrated Opinion

My frustrated opinion


 

The IPP sentence was abolished because the European Courts of Human Rights labelled it unlawful and inhumane. Yet thousands of us are still languishing behind bars with no hope of freedom. Many prisoners succumb to addiction and self-harm, also mental health issues and tragically many commit suicide because they can’t see no light at the end of the tunnel.

Date
15th July 2020
Author
Serving IPP Prisoner

Losing Dreams....Again

Losing dreams

The sound of the sirens screaming, the sound of the doors banging, the sound the gates clanking .... And let’s not forget that smell, that distinctive smell when you enter prison or in my case, re-enter prison. 
That smell of disappointment, misery and most of all, the lack of hope. Welcome back to HMP.

Date
3rd July 2020
Author
Sara on behalf of Rob

I get emails saying he wants to kill himself

I get emails saying he wants to kill himself

My partner was sentenced to an IPP in feb 2005 for a GBH section 18 with intent. He was sentenced to 5 years but after numerous parole hearings being refused he was finally released in 2016 so had by then already served 11 years in jail.

His mental health has never been the best and he takes sleeping tablets, anti depressants plus antipsychotic medication too. The prison don’t seem to be much support to him when he’s having a bad time with his mental health; he’s just kind of left to it.

Date
30th June 2020
Author
Partner of an IPP prisoner (anonymous)

Them eleven words saved my life

Them eleven words saved my life

I’ve a story to tell, I’m in no way glorifying what I’m going to say but it was a long and painful journey; take 5 and if one of yous learns about this hell its worth every letter I’m writing.

In November 2007 I was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to the now unlawful and barbaric IPP sentence. I served 11 and a half years in prisons up and down the country.

Date
26th June 2020
Author
Steven Mullen IPP