IPP ...Let my son rebuild his life. Abolish the IPP off him.
IPP ...Let my son rebuild his life. Abolish the IPP off him.
The Issue
My son Shaun LLoyd, is a devoted father. He loves spending time with his family and he knows the value of it having been imprisoned for more than 8 years. Shaun was given a minimum of 2 and half years for street robbery of a mobile phone in January 2006.
He accepts he shouldn't have done it, and served his time. Despite this. We had to campaign until 2014 to get him freed. This is because he is serving the Imprisonment for public protection (IPP). It means that there is no release date. He was just 18.
Now Shaun who is now 38 desperately wants to rebuild his life. But he can get recalled and thrown into prison at any time - without even committing a crime. Shaun has been put back in prison three times already. And not for committing a crime but because of the strict licence conditions, he can be recalled indefinatly just for being late for probation or a false allegations made. See below.
My brother died because of a false allegation’: Publican took his own life after indefinite jail term recall
IPP sentences were abolished in 2012 but not retrospectively, meaning that thousands serving them have almost been forgotten about. Some like Shaun, who was given a minimum sentence of 2 and a half years are still inside 20 years later coursing phsychological harm. The United Nations has backed this claim, read link below
United Nations to investigate ‘national scandal’ of prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ipp-sentence-un-arbitrary-detention-b2823189.htm
UK: UN torture expert calls for urgent review of over 2,000 prison tariffs under discredited IPP sentencing scheme
Ten more years of injustice: Figures lay bare scale of IPP scandal
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ipp-sentence-report-figures-james-timpson-b2790939.html
The Justice Select Committee deemed the IPP sentence irredeemably flawed. Read link below.
With no hope or light at the end of the tunnel, Shaun tried to hang himself. Inmates advised him to take prescription drugs- to make the pain go away. Shaun left prison with a drug addiction. When he tried to seek help from probation, he was thrown back into jail.
This tore the family apart- teachers told us that they noticed change in the kids behaviour. How could we tell them that he may never come home? Shaun did get released by the parole board but yet again he is recalled to prison and not for any crime.
Politicians, Lords Former Judges, and the prison Governor's association along with former justice ministers have publicly expressed frustration at the governments failure to "get a grip" on IPPs and resentence them. When the sentencing was introduced it was meant for the most dangerous criminals- like perpetrators of sexual violence and terrorist. It was not intended for people like Shaun.
91 IPP prisoners have taken their own lives in the prison estate and 31 have taken their own lives in the community due to the fear of recall
Many more are self harming because they cannot cope with the never knowing if or when they will ever be released. Hundreds of IPP prisoners have been transferred to mental health secure hospitals because they lost their minds living with no hope.
The IPP sentence has to end, so i am calling on the secretary of state for justice David Lammy to resentence all Ipp prisoners and let them rebuild their lives.
Peter Stafanavic films on the IPP has reached millions of veiws see below
Links below to the IPP campaign groups
ippcommitteeinaction.com
ungripp.com
Please sign this petition and help put our families and loved ones out of their misery. All they want is their lives back. Thank you.
47,494
The Issue
My son Shaun LLoyd, is a devoted father. He loves spending time with his family and he knows the value of it having been imprisoned for more than 8 years. Shaun was given a minimum of 2 and half years for street robbery of a mobile phone in January 2006.
He accepts he shouldn't have done it, and served his time. Despite this. We had to campaign until 2014 to get him freed. This is because he is serving the Imprisonment for public protection (IPP). It means that there is no release date. He was just 18.
Now Shaun who is now 38 desperately wants to rebuild his life. But he can get recalled and thrown into prison at any time - without even committing a crime. Shaun has been put back in prison three times already. And not for committing a crime but because of the strict licence conditions, he can be recalled indefinatly just for being late for probation or a false allegations made. See below.
My brother died because of a false allegation’: Publican took his own life after indefinite jail term recall
IPP sentences were abolished in 2012 but not retrospectively, meaning that thousands serving them have almost been forgotten about. Some like Shaun, who was given a minimum sentence of 2 and a half years are still inside 20 years later coursing phsychological harm. The United Nations has backed this claim, read link below
United Nations to investigate ‘national scandal’ of prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ipp-sentence-un-arbitrary-detention-b2823189.htm
UK: UN torture expert calls for urgent review of over 2,000 prison tariffs under discredited IPP sentencing scheme
Ten more years of injustice: Figures lay bare scale of IPP scandal
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ipp-sentence-report-figures-james-timpson-b2790939.html
The Justice Select Committee deemed the IPP sentence irredeemably flawed. Read link below.
With no hope or light at the end of the tunnel, Shaun tried to hang himself. Inmates advised him to take prescription drugs- to make the pain go away. Shaun left prison with a drug addiction. When he tried to seek help from probation, he was thrown back into jail.
This tore the family apart- teachers told us that they noticed change in the kids behaviour. How could we tell them that he may never come home? Shaun did get released by the parole board but yet again he is recalled to prison and not for any crime.
Politicians, Lords Former Judges, and the prison Governor's association along with former justice ministers have publicly expressed frustration at the governments failure to "get a grip" on IPPs and resentence them. When the sentencing was introduced it was meant for the most dangerous criminals- like perpetrators of sexual violence and terrorist. It was not intended for people like Shaun.
91 IPP prisoners have taken their own lives in the prison estate and 31 have taken their own lives in the community due to the fear of recall
Many more are self harming because they cannot cope with the never knowing if or when they will ever be released. Hundreds of IPP prisoners have been transferred to mental health secure hospitals because they lost their minds living with no hope.
The IPP sentence has to end, so i am calling on the secretary of state for justice David Lammy to resentence all Ipp prisoners and let them rebuild their lives.
Peter Stafanavic films on the IPP has reached millions of veiws see below
Links below to the IPP campaign groups
ippcommitteeinaction.com
ungripp.com
Please sign this petition and help put our families and loved ones out of their misery. All they want is their lives back. Thank you.
47,494
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Petition created on 5 September 2017