{"id":1634474,"date":"2024-04-28T11:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/apr\/28\/david-blunkett-says-devising-99-year-prison-sentences-ipp-is-his-biggest-regret"},"modified":"2024-04-28T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:05:47","slug":"david-blunkett-says-devising-99-year-prison-sentences-is-his-biggest-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/28\/david-blunkett-says-devising-99-year-prison-sentences-is-his-biggest-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"David Blunkett says devising 99-year prison sentences is his \u2018biggest regret\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour former home secretary says imprisonment for public protection sentences have resulted in \u2018deeply damaging outcomes\u2019<\/p>

David Blunkett, the former Labour home secretary, has said devising legislation that has left people languishing in prison for minor offences is the \u201cbiggest regret\u201d of his eight years at the heart of government.<\/p>

The Labour peer, a titan of the Brown-Blair era, said that imprisonment for public protection (IPP) \u2013 known as the 99-year sentence \u2013 is the greatest blot in his copybook.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Labour former home secretary says imprisonment for public protection sentences have resulted in \u2018deeply damaging outcomes\u2019David Blunkett, the former Labour home secretary, has said devising legislation that has left people languishing in prison for min…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79101,6,14,29495,1313,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634474"}],"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\/34598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634665,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634474\/revisions\/1634665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}