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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editorial: The plight of hundreds of inmates trapped in a grim loop between indefinite sentences and mental health treatment ...

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., ...

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 ...

WARREN — A Sebring man on Wednesday received an indefinite prison sentence of five- to seven-and-a-half years on two felony convictions linked to a May 1, 2021, attack on a woman at a northwest Warren ...

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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