{"id":1199185,"date":"2023-09-03T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/sep\/03\/number-of-offenders-with-indefinite-sentences-recalled-to-prison-soars"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:00:16","slug":"number-of-offenders-with-indefinite-sentences-recalled-to-prison-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/03\/number-of-offenders-with-indefinite-sentences-recalled-to-prison-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of offenders with indefinite sentences recalled to prison soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Campaigners say people are being sent back to jail in England and Wales \u2018for no good reason\u2019<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/sep\/03\/un-highlights-psychological-harm-to-uk-man-jailed-since-2012-for-phone-theft\">UN highlights \u2018psychological harm\u2019 to UK man jailed since 2012 for phone theft<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>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.<\/p><p>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/may\/18\/jail-law-britain-prisoners-ipp-sentences\">widely discredited<\/a> 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.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/sep\/03\/number-of-offenders-with-indefinite-sentences-recalled-to-prison-soars\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/sep\/03\/number-of-offenders-with-indefinite-sentences-recalled-to-prison-soars\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Campaigners say people are being sent back to jail in England and Wales \u2018for no good reason\u2019UN highlights \u2018psychological harm\u2019 to UK man jailed since 2012 for phone theftThe number of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) offenders who ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4397,6,640,29495,4140,1313,1314,5623],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199186,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199185\/revisions\/1199186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}