Britain's Overcrowded Prisons at Breaking Point

Wheatley has also tasked Justice Secretary Alex Norris with finding a way to halt the early release of two of the killers of PC Andrew Harper, urging him to address the "clearly unfair" jail terms among potential space-saving measures. He said enforcing the hopeless sentences has created "issues of conscience" for prison governors, including members who struggled to cope after IPP inmates in their care took their own lives after losing hope of release. At least 96 prisoners serving the sentences have taken their own lives in jail. It is a really knotty problem, but someone has to be courageous and take action, he told The Independent, adding that in many cases IPP prisoners have now become victims themselves after years trapped on the unjust jail term.