Overcrowding in prisons we seriously need protect the health and wellbeing of IPP prisoners and all inmates and staff.

 
Is the UK a forward thing nation with over crowding prison,s and no rehabilitation or Human Rights?

MEP.s  vote to reduce overcrowding in prisons the view the empty prion of Modelo in Barceldna,Catalonia, Spain.

The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee has called on national authorities to address the issue of overcrowding in prisons – which may fuel radicalisation – by opting for alternatives to imprisonment whenever possible.


In a resolution voted on October 5, MEPs said EU member states should improve prison conditions across the EU, so as to protect the health and wellbeing of inmates and staff, favour rehabilitation and reduce the risk of radicalisation. To help prevent radicalisation, MEPs also recommend staff training, prison intelligence, interfaith dialogue and psychological care.

“In most EU countries, civil society has turned away from its jails, most of which are old and overcrowded,” said Joëlle Bergeron (EFDD, FR), Parliament’s rapporteur. “It is time to adopt a more

humane conception of prison life, banning prisons which are too large, boosting alternatives to incarceration and adapting the institutions to the detainees’ profile. Since this is a national competence, 

EU institutions should guide countries towards a management of prisons and prisoners which is more consistent with human rights.”
According to the parliament, imprisonment, and especially pre-trial detention, should be a last-resort option, reserved for legally justified cases, and consider it particularly inappropriate for vulnerable individuals such as minors, the elderly, pregnant women and people with serious illnesses.

For convicts who do not present a serious danger to society, MEPs said alternatives to prison should include detention at home, community service and electronic tagging.

MEPs also warned against the increasing privatisation of prison systems. They said this may worsen detention conditions and undermine respect for fundamental rights.

Based on Eurostat data compiled In 2014, prisons across the EU were holding over half a million inmates, including both convicted persons, serving their final sentence, and persons accused of a crime who were on remand.

What is the true impact on those sentence to IPP and the experience of Father or Mother in or out of the  criminal justice system.

John  described being incarcerated just prior to his child birth coming home 6 years lather and not been able to relate to his child age 6.
He said i was given an never ending sentence IPP my chance to boned was taken from me. Describing his experience like a mother taken from her child at birth without seeing the child's face it was totally sole breaking and not knowing when you were coming home.
 A loss he compares to a child being kidnapped and reunited years lather only to find the child identify not with the  parents but the captures.

Hundreds awaiting answers on the deaths of there love one,s after high level of suicides

5th October. 

The family of an Irvine man who killed himself in prison after being jailed for shoplifting.Demand answers after prison "suicide" tragedy. Ryan Forbes was found hanged while he was on remand for shoplifting on Tuesday, September 26.He was 23.Now his family and friends say they need to know how he managed to hang himself in his cell.Wntire family are devastated.

Speaking exclusively to the Times, he said: “We are just trying to come to terms with his death and we need to know how this has happened when he has been in custody. You think when you go to prison you would be safe and protected, but he obviously hasn’t been. We need answers.

He says he had struggled with his mental and emotional health since his mum Jacqueline died suddenly when he was just 10.



PETITION
To Release the remainING IPP prisoners.

 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/free-the-remaining-ipp-prisoners?source=facebook-share-button&time=1457618246

CAMPAIGN FOR IAN HARTLEY, DAMIAN HICKMAN AND EDDY JOHNSON

PETITION https://www.evensi.uk/ipp-prisoner-campaign-for-ian-hartley-damian-hickman-and/226646222

COMMENT 

My son is currently in HMP Winchester re an IPP Sentence and relate to your story and want to do everything I can to help my son.  He was sentenced to an IPP after committing many crimes 15 years ago, he served years in prison.  After an appeal he was released into the Community.  He worked and lived in the community for 6 years doing well studying criminology and achieved degrees etc.  Unfortunately, he lapsed and failed a drug test in Dec 2017, therefore due to the IPP sentence he is currently in prison.  I am trying to do everything I can to help him be released.  

My son wrote to me and asked me if I would sign your petition for the release of Ian Harltey of which I have done.

I would appreciate your reply and any advise you can give me.

 Watson

(Mother)

 https://www.neweurope.eu/article/meps-vote-reduce-overcrowding-prisons/

 5th Octoberwww.irvinetimes.com/news/15575389.Demand_for_answers_after_prison__suicide__tragedy/?platform=hootsuite