As of the end of 2022, close to 2,900 people were still being held under the scheme. Unresolved legacy Between 2005 and 2012, English and Welsh courts used the IPP legislation to issue indeterminate sentences to those deemed likely to cause serious public harm, "until they no longer represented such a risk", said a press release issued by the UN human rights office OHCHR on behalf of the UN torture expert, Alice Jill Edwards. These sentences were mandatory for more than 50 specified serious crimes initially, leading to a larger than expected number being incarcerated - a total of 8,711.
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