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Prison officers have been left in an “intolerable” position of dealing with frustrated and hopeless prisoners trapped on abolished indefinite jail terms which are an “embarrassment” to Britain, a union chief has warned.
Steve Gillan, general secretary of the Prison Officers’ Association, hit out at the government for leaving almost 2,500 prisoners languishing on “grossly unjust” Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) jail terms, despite scrapping them 13 years ago.
“There are some people who are well over t
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