Lord Woodley has introduced a private members bill to help prisoners trapped under an abolished imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence with no hope of release.
The Labour peer branded the jail terms torture sentences and said keeping almost 3,000 prisoners locked up under an abolished jail term in the midst of a prison overcrowding crisis makes no sense at all.
It comes amid growing pressure on the government to resentence IPP prisoners after at least 90 inmates have taken their own lives under the jail term, which has been branded psychological torture by the UN.
In 2022, the cross party Justice Select Committee urged the then-Tory government to resentence all IPP prisoners, but this was rejected.
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