The chairman of the House of Commons justice committee said he was “genuinely surprised” the Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, has rejected their recommendation to review the status of almost 3,000 prisoners who were being held under the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) system.
In September the committee recommended all 2,926 in England and Wales should be reviewed and said IPP was “irredeemably flawed.”
But on Thursday, Raab rejected a review of all IPP sentences and said: “The government’s long-held view is that this would give rise to an unacceptable risk to public protection and that the IPP action plan, suitably updated, remains the best option by which these offenders can progress towards safe release.”…