Of 2,614 people still incarcerated on an IPP jail term, 127 prisoners like Douglas have served at least 15 years longer than their original minimum term.
Despite more than 90 suicides inside prison and repeated calls from the justice committee, the UN and the architect of the flawed sentence Lord David Blunkett, successive governments have refused to resentence IPP prisoners.
A father who stole a mobile phone when he was in the grips of a drug addiction is still languishing in prison almost 20 years later under an “inhumane” indefinite jail term.
Exclusive: Leroy Douglas is begging for his freedom, describing his IPP jail term as ‘cripplingly cruel’ as languishes in prison with no hope of release.
In the early stages of his sentence, he made a successful compensation claim against the Ministry of Justice for breaching his human rights by denying him access to courses necessary for his release and was paid several thousand pounds, but the government said it no longer had records for claims made so long ago.
