Prison without hope or end is psychological torture. Burnham doesn’t need another review to tell him that | Simon Hattenstone
Political leaders have kicked the can of public protection tariff reform down the road for years – causing hopeless inmates to take their own livesIn January 2015, Tommy Nicol told his family that he was suffering “psychological torture of a person who is doing 99 years”. Nicol had been given an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence six years earlier for stealing a car from a garage and injuring the owner. He was already two years beyond his four-year tariff…
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