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Chalk considering limited IPP reform

Chalk considering limited IPP reform

But will it be enough to wipe a stain from the criminal justice system?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jul 20, 2023
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The justice secretary Alex Chalk has floated a small but significant reform to a prison sentence that Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, the former Supreme Court justice who died this month, rightly described as “the greatest single stain on our criminal justice system”. But campaigners want the government to go much further.

Imprisonment for public prot…

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