LETTERS FROM PRISON

Here, you can read letters from people serving IPP sentences, which have

been published in the national prison newspaper: Inside Time

     2022

• How much longer?

• IPP Enigma

• IPP"s letting us down. / How many more courses?

• OPD pathways

• The ROTL impossible

• Two-strike and IPP lifers

• No Hope, Little care

• Never get out, not ever & discrimination

• Yet I am still here

• Torture

• Don't Forget the Irish

• Remember

• Recall - poem

• Two Strike still a Problem

     2021

• Let these people go

• Look Closer to Home

• Tagging us all

• I can relate

• Unique Learner number

• Growing up in Prison

• Letter From?

• Unlawful Bufoonery

• A death Sentence

• You are mistaken

• Please help the IPPs

• Gifted the Virus

• Len Tesko and me

• Action not words

• There is hope

• Words Count for IPPs

• Interesting Choice of Words

• Insidious Rhetoric

• Unbalanced System

• Barbaric Sentence Star Letter of the Month

• IPP Hit Hardest by Lockdowns

• IPP Inquiry Still Open for Prisoners

• Government Hostages

• Same old, same old

• Take the positive view

• Heartbreaking to see

• IPP a "disaster", admits Blunkett

• Can We?

• Co-parent to convict

• It's already there

• Lead by example

• No good IPP news

• IPP good news

• IPP licence appeal

• IPP political prisoners

• Never free from IPP

• A false sentence

• Mercy instead of risk

     2020

• IPP license appeal 

• IPP - political prisoners

• Internment and IPP

• IPP political?

• IPP: Time for change

• Fighting the IPP

• Never ending IPP

• How can it be retrospective?

• No 'peace deal' for IPPs

• Heartfelt thanks

• Please release us

• My time means nothing

• Correct the lie

• The magical legislation wand

• Treat us equally

• Ship me to Shanghai

• Where's the Justice?

     2019

• On the IPP wire

• No lawful justification

• IPP for knife crime

• EDS, not the new IPP

• Nothing changes if nothing changes

• Hostages of the British State

• IPP dominoes falling

• Action needed

• Sick to death of politics

• A real gem among us

• A second chance is all we need

• Internment

• Punishment vs public protection

• Joint enterprise hostages

• Starting all over again

• Dear Rory...

• History = autism?

• Absconding consequences

• Chinese whispers

• The risk of D Cat

• Dangerous bunks

• Age shall not weary me

• It was all me...

     2018

• IPP knockback

• IPPs, be afraid, be very afraid

• When will they do the right thing?

• Prevention better than cure

• In the hands of God

• Nothing changes...

• Rehabilitative culture?

• Imagined risk

     2017

• Please stop walking on by

• On the wire

• You have the power, use it!

• Hospital secures IPP release?

• The HMP Titanic

• State torture

• Hostage to fortune

• Monstrous life sentences

• Not so magic roundabout

• Get real on IPPs

• The nightmare continues

• Change nothing, and nothing changes

     2016

• IPP should be absolute priority

• Kicked from IPP pillar to post

• Some IPPs more equal than others?

• Ugly head of IPPs

• Bogus tariff for IPPs

• Life in prison for breaking a sink

     2015

• Post-tariff? Vote for change!

• No courses for IPPs

• IPP - Lunacy at best

• Degrading and inhumane treatment of prisoners

• Living on a prayer

• A forgotten IPP prisoner

• How much more?

• Prisoners receiving wrong information about student loans

• IPP personality clash

• Irish no longer European

• Exceptional circumstances

• Are politicians for real

• When will it end?

• Forgotten IPPs

• Why such a backlog of Parole hearings?

• Some staff treat people like scum

• Immediate release?

• Parole data lost by courier

• Parole Board telling porkies

• What's going on?

     2014

• I was the first IPP prisoner

• Irish to rot in British gaols

• Psychological torture

• Why no treatment for sex addicts

• Banging my head against a brick wall

• Sick of the blackmail

• Where are they getting their ideas from?

• Dear Mister Grayling

     2013

• An open letter to Sir David Calvert-Smith, Chairman The Parole Board

• Reform or repression

• Can this really be justice

• Whole system broken and corrupt

• How can he not talk to sex offenders

• Kafka lives

• Waste of money

• Thanks for nothing

• Offending behaviour courses

     2012

• IPP and literacy

• Female IPP

• IPP - Imprisonment for psychological persecution

• IPP Olymptic protest

• Imprisonment for Public Protection or incompetent prison psychology?

• Forget McKinnon free the IPPs

• Praise and questions for Theresa May

• Why the different treatment

• Uninformed opinon

• ISP should be civil prisoners

• Just a job to them

• Climbing the mountain of paperwork

• There is hope for IPPs

• No parole on anti-depressants

• Judicial review help needed

• Update on TERS

• Changes to foreign national law

     2011

• An open letter to the European Court of Human Rights

• Importing Guantanamo

• IPP and Dr Johnson

• Maintaining family contact made impossible

• The forgotten prisoners

• Clake scuppered by The Sun

• Outpriced justice

• More hoops to jump through

• The cat in the sealed box