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How one man spent nearly 20 years in jail due to a legal loophole
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March 16, 2025
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5:10Now PlayingGovernment figures this week are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme.
But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of their sentences, there is a cohort of the prison population who have served extended sentences, years beyond their minimum term.
IPP sentences, Imprisonment For Public Protection, were introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012. But the law wasn’t back-dated, so the legacy of prisoners serving indefinite sentences continues.
Sky's home editor Jason Farrell speaks to one man who has spent much of his adult life in and out of prison after committing an armed robbery at a cash point.
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