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> I guess this is the same in England. So there must be something seriously wrong with the guy. Mother doesn't see that obviously. The indefinite sentences wer
by throwup238 2y ago
> I guess this is the same in England. So there must be something seriously wrong with the guy. Mother doesn't see that obviously.
The indefinite sentences were abolished in 2012 because they were being overused. They just didn't retroactively eliminate the existing sentences and the Parole Board has taken forever to sort through the problem.
In 2016 the head of the Parole Board said they wanted to reduce the number of IPP sentences to 1,500 by 2020 [1], but you know... Tories happened.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-ipp-prisoners-from-parole-board-chairman https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-ipp-prisoner...