Exclusive: Campaigners say people are being sent back to jail in England and Wales ‘for no good reason’
The number of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) offenders who have been recalled to jail despite not being charged with a further offence has soared in recent years, accounting for almost three-quarters of returns last year.
Under the widely discredited England and Wales scheme, which was abolished in 2012 but not retrospectively, offenders were given a frequently low minimum jail tariff but no maximum one, and were released on indefinite licence, meaning they can be recalled at any point.
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