Prisoners serving inhumane indefinite sentences may have lost appeals for their freedom because non-existent offences had been wrongly included in their files, openDemocracy can reveal.
This website has spoken to families and supporters of three prisoners serving ‘imprisonment for public protection’ (IPP) jail sentences whose files made reference to crimes they had never been accused of.
In at least one case, we have seen evidence that a man was refused parole after authorities compiled a dossier that included non-existent offences. In another, a man was beaten by other inmates who wrongly believed he was a sex offender after seeing an incorrect reference in his file.
