LETTERS FROM PRISON

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

been published in the national prison newspaper: Inside Time

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...

2020

• Internment and IPP

• IPP political?

• IPP: Time for change

• Fighting the IPP

• Neverrending 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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

2010

• Indefinitely maybe!!!

• IPP transfers

• IPP situation

• A contributor not a destroyer

• Travel restrictions

• Thanks for nothing

• IPP, if your face fits

• A two day course!!!