The inside story of the measures being taken by members of the House of Lords for IPP prisoners in the current parliamentary Victims and Prisoners Bill. We join Sam on 11th March 2024, three months after the inquest of Matthew Price, an IPP pri

What Does Hope Look Like?

Dec 15th, 2023 43m 49s

The IPP sentence has created a sense of hopelessness amongst prisoners, leading to poor mental health, self-harm and numerous suicides, so we are ending this series by asking ‘what does hope look like’ for IPP serving prisoners? Sam asks this q

Set up to Fail

Nov 23rd, 2023 30m 58s

Nicole, Madison and Matthew Price's stories.Nicole and Madison both served Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences. Now out on licence, Sam meets these two women in Parliament, whilst trying to lobby their MPs. She hears about life i

Walking on Eggshells

Oct 30th, 2023 37m 21s

What's life like for IPP prisoners on licence? Mark Conway and Andrew Morris both describe it as ‘walking on eggshells’. Mark Conway intervened in the terror attack at London Bridge in 2019, tackling Usman Khan who was subsequently shot dead by

Appealing the Sentence: IH’s Story

Oct 9th, 2023 29m 41s

How IH fought and won the legal appeal against his DPP sentence.IH is one of the few people who has successfully appealed against his DPP sentence. DPP stands for ‘Detention for Public Protection’, it works just like IPPs, but it was given to p

Bogus Diagnosis

Sep 25th, 2023 30m 34s

Bernadette and Abdulahi's story, plus Sam explores mental health treatment for IPPs and the now controversial Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway.Sam travels to Cardiff to meet Bernadette, whose husband Abdulahi received an IPP sentence

'Dear Tommy': The Inquest

Aug 1st, 2023 30m 34s

Donna and Tommy’s story and why so many IPP serving prisoners have taken their own lives.Tommy Nicol was serving an IPP sentence for robbery and when his tariff expired and he still wasn’t released from prison, he took his own life. Tommy is ju

A Catch-22

Jul 18th, 2023 35m 7s

Roddy and Robert Russell’s story, plus Sam explores why IPP serving prisoners are finding it so hard to get released by the parole board.Roddy Russell first found out what an IPP sentence was in 2011 when his brother, Robert didn't come home af

Tough on Crime

Jul 3rd, 2023 39m 24s

Shirley and Shaun’s story, plus Sam digs into the history of the IPP sentence, what has made it such a failure?Shirley Debono has been campaigning against IPPs (Imprisonment for Public Protection) for many years. Her son Shaun Lloyd received an

A Kafkaesque Maze

Jun 16th, 2023 29m 3s

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-ye

Ghost Prisoners

May 26th, 2023 41m 43s

What are IPPs sentences and why are they so destructive? It's the 27th of April 2023. We join reporter Sam Asumadu as she takes us back to the time when she first heard about IPPs (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentences during a meeting

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Trapped Trailer

May 23rd, 2023 1m 26s

Podcast series charting the UK #IPP prisoner scandal. Listen on #Acast #ApplePodcasts #Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Today there are nearly 3,000 people trapped in British prisons on the now abolished indeterminate IPP (Imprisonmen

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