A coroner has blasted the “inhumane and indefensible” treatment of a prisoner who took his own life after serving 17 years for a 23-month jail term. Scott Rider, 45, who was one of Britain’s ...

MARIETTA — In an effort to curtail violent offenders leaving jail too soon and re-offending, a new Ohio law, which goes into effect on March 21, allows judges to give indefinite sentences with minimum ...

Campaigners have hit out at the "short-sighted" decision not to include prisoners on indefinite sentences in the plans to reduce the prison population. On Thursday, the government published its ...

A desperate mother has spoken of her anguish after her teenage son was jailed for 18 months but is still trapped in prison 18 years later under a cruel indefinite jail term. Luke Ings was handed a ...

A man who abducted and violently raped two women has been given an indefinite jail sentence. Sohail Ahmed abused two women in a flat in Glasgow, the first in December 2022. He took the victim to the ...

The UK Ministry of Justice announced plans to reform Imprisonment for Public Protection (“IPP”) sentences. IPP sentences, originally intended to prevent offenders considered “dangerous” from being ...

LIBERTY – A Youngstown man will spend an indefinite amount of time in prison after being convicted in the April 15 shooting of a pizza delivery driver in Liberty Township. Jermaine D. Stroughter Jr., ...

On Christmas Eve morning last year, Sherry Smith was driving while intoxicated when her minivan slammed into a car, killing a 65-year-old passenger and seriously injuring the driver. Smith was ...

It is scarcely believable that there are still 2,614 people in prison in Britain serving indefinite sentences under legislation that was repealed 13 years ago – at a time when other prisoners are ...

A man committed extreme acts of self harm before taking his own life in prison while serving an indeterminate sentence. Tommy Nicol killed himself back in 2015 six years into an Imprisonment for ...

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