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Episode Synopsis
The IPP campaign under the spotlight.The Trapped team report on two new IPP campaigns: one inside and one outside of Westminster, during the Summer of 2025. On 18th July 2025, the Tik Tok campaign group injustice_of_ipp staged a demonstration outside Parliament. Protesters and former prisoners describe the inhumane impact of indefinite detention, including widespread mental health crises and suicides (95 deaths to date).Inside Parliament, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, a former senior judge, reflects on how the IPP system was 'a failed experiment', intended to predict dangerousness but resulting in unjust, indefinite punishment. In June, 2025 Lord Thomas and The Howard League for Penal Reform published new recommendations to end the “IPP stain,” arguing that the government’s current IPP Action Plan is ineffective. How will the Prison’s Minister, Lord James Timpson, and the government, react?Read the Howard League’s 2025 proposals to end the detention of people on IPP sentences: https://howardleague.org/news/expert-working-group-publishes-proposals-to-end-the-detention-of-people-on-ipp-sentences/Get in touch on X, TikTok, Facebook or Instagram | @Trapped_PodFor more info about the IPP campaign: visit UNGRIPP | www.ungripp.com | @UNGRIPP | IPP Committee In Action @ActionIpp | injustice_of_ippContributors in order of appearance:Deborah Ingram, mother of IPP serving prisoner LeviRoddy Russell, brother of IPP serving prisoner RobertStacey Clough, partner of IPP serving prisonerAndrew Morris, Former IPP prisoner and Trustee of the Howard LeagueLord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2013 – 2017)David Parker, IPP prisoner on licenceMandy Slade, mother of David ParkerKatie Best, wife of IPP serving prisoner JohnMelissa, former prison officer | Off the Cuff with MelAndrea Coomber, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform | howardleague.orgVoices in archive:Lord Daniel MoylanLord James Timpson, Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and ProbationProduction Credits:Presenter: Roddy Russell | @1roddyRussellExecutive Producer: Melissa FitzGerald | @MelissafitzgProducer: Steve Langridge | @SMLANGERSConsultant: Hank RossiAn Ear Worm Production for the Institute of Now Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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