Sam reports on Aaron and Cherrie’s story and the ‘Kafkaesque maze’ of the offending behaviour programmes.

Aaron Graham is the longest straight serving IPP prisoner. He's has been in prison for nineteen years without parole on a two-and-a-half-year tariff, and he still doesn’t know when he’s getting out. Aaron’s sister Cherrie Nichol has been campaigning for Aaron and others like him serving the IPP sentence. 

Sam also digs into the offending behaviour programs, an integral part of the justice system and proving your reduced risk to the parole board as an IPP serving prisoner. She finds that these courses are hard to access in many prisons. Sometimes IPP prisoners do the courses multiple times, and the parole board still doesn't grant release, leaving these prisoners in what’s been described as ‘a Kafkaesque maze’. 

Meanwhile in Westminster, it’s now June 2023 and the new Secretary of State for Justice, Alex Chalk remains non-committal on resentencing the 2,916 prisoners still serving the IPP sentence, but he has also left the door open for further action. Whilst the politicking continues in Parliament, the prisoners and their families remain in limbo. 

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For more info about the Campaign for Justice for IPPs prisoners: UNGRIPP www.ungripp.com/ Twitter @UNGRIPP

Contributors in order of appearance:

Aaron Graham, IPP serving prisoner

Cherrie Nichol, sister of Aaron Graham and IPP campaigner.

Dr. Jo Shingler, forensic psychologist 

Mark Day, Prison Reform Trust @PRTuk

Dean Kingham, prison and parole solicitor

Harry Annison, criminologist 

Voices in archive:

Lord Daniel Moylan

Sir Bob Neill

John McDonnell MP

Alex Chalk KC MP

Joe Outlaw, IPP serving prisoner

Production Team:

Reporter: Samantha Asumadu @SamanthaAsumadu

Executive Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @melissafitzg

Producer: Steve Langridge @SMLANGERS

Consultant: Hank Rossi

Artwork: Brightside 

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