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By Lucy Kenningham “Torturous” indeterminate sentences have led prisoners to lead decades of their lives in jail, writes Lucy Kenningham Imagine being imprisoned not for a crime you have committed but for a crime that you might commit in the future. It is a situation that lies at the nightmarish juncture between being Kafkaesque and Orwellian. Yet it is not a fictional dystopia. It is modern Britain. This is the curse of an imprisonment for public protection sentence or IPP. Under this law, people are given a minimum sentence they must serve, but can be detained indefinitely and released only …

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