It’s a scheme described as ‘the single greatest stain on our criminal justice system’ by a former supreme court justice.
Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences, introduced under New Labour, allowed offenders to be kept in jail indefinitely if they posed a risk to the public.
The scheme was scrapped a decade ago, but around 3,000 prisoners are still serving indefinite terms.
Today, a committee of MPs has called for them to be re-sentenced, saying the system causes ‘acute harm’.
Martin Read has been meeting some of those affected – and a warning, his report contains distressing themes