IPP and long-term prisoners are dogged by stigma and ‘set up to fail’ on release, report warns
In a report, he feels that he is shaken by the stigmatization of prisoners who have been saved from uncertain prison conditions and other long -term sentences, and is “ready to fail” in their release.
In -depth research on the experiences of prisoners without long -term imprisonment revealed that many people feel abandoned and equipped to cope with the outside while struggling to find housing, employing and rebuilding their lives.
Those who were sentenced to controversial imprisonment for the imprisonment of Public Protection (IPP), which was abolished in 2012, and life penalties define living under a “overwhelming kalmış recall if they do not comply with complex and sometimes“ infantylizing ”undergraduate conditions.
Experts called for a package of precautionary packages that would help them to re -integrate the judicial surveillance of the decisions of recall and the confidence of criminals in a new report from the confidence of prison reform, Independent can reveal.
This includes how to use a telephone or laptop, how to use the internet to search for business opportunities, and to send an e-mail and pre-foresight training that focuses on technology such as online banking.
A woman who came out of the sentence of life remembered: orum I remember seeing an iPhone… I never saw a smartphone, I didn’t use a smartphone. For example, what is this? What is an application on the phone? ”
In the report, special re -settlement teams and a departure package are also called to ensure that prisoners are separated from clothes, bathroom materials, identity documents and SIM card.
In the report, he thinks that many prisoners are stunned by the stigmatization of the criminal record and that he was amazed by the reluctance to offer a second chance or to provide a chance to one of the society ”.
Others have described that olmak failure in community ”and il not giving a fair opportunity to restore their lives ..
A released IPP prisoner explained that he had worried and fear when he was released and added: ım I was in tears. I was mixing like a baby.
“It was frightened to leave my friends, but I had to leave them. So I just left, but I was happy too, I finally went out.”
After being imprisoned for years, he said that he felt “completely confused” from the fast pace of the outside world.
Although it has spent almost two years in the community, it can be recalled to prison indefinitely even for the smallest violations of undergraduate conditions. In the report, this may include something simple as forgetting the controlled freedom of the record of the new car.
“Obviously I have the freedom to make a choice, but in the end you know yourself, you know that you are not free,” he said. “If things go wrong, my freedom can be taken from me at any point.”
He said that non -flexible undergraduate conditions are not less, not less, and that it is likely to get into trouble again: orum I know 100 percent, I know that I will never commit any more crimes. It is very easy for me to tell you, but that’s not the problem.
“This is a failure to experience one million and a license condition and a compromise, no understanding.”
While describing the threat of constant remembering as “super -exhausting” and emotionally drained, another IPP prisoner described it as a “burden of remembering ..
“Somehow I could miss a appointment and remember … Or someone could make misconceptions against me and remind me of me,” he said.
The same prisoner also explained the struggle to mentally adapt to a changing world: “People who are released from prison will fail.”
The report now called for independent judicial surveillance of the recall decisions made by supervised freedom officials with “severe and frequently disproportionate consequences”.
They also called for more regular examinations of undergraduate conditions in order to remove those who are no longer necessary or proportional to the re -placement of the individual.
When you return to the community, other prisoners said that it was a problem because they face difficulties to find trial and job, driving, access the internet and find affordable housing.
A woman who was released for a life imprisonment five years ago, said she felt “overwhelming ğinde every time she had to disclose her conviction.
“The only way to explain how difficult it is like putting your dirty underwear on the line to look at everyone,” he said.
“It’s like he crushes you every time. It’s crushing. It’s like, I don’t want to tell people I don’t know this overwhelming thing that I am ashamed of, I’m involved in all this chaos.”
Pia Sinha, the general manager of Trust, the prison reform, emphasized the urgent need to support people who have left long prison sentences.
Added: ” [the report] Policy makers come in a critical moment because they are looking for new solutions to arrest the prison capacity crisis. The upcoming penalty invoice and the government’s investment commitment to the government’s probation and re -settlement services are a real opportunity to act on these proposals.
“Being integrated again provides not only prisoners but also victims and wider society as a whole.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: “We are determined to create better citizens, not better criminals but better citizens. So every prison offers vital education and training and we are connecting more governors with local employers to help people turn their backs on crime.
“IPP prisoners are still detained, including better access to mental health services and rehabilitation programs to help release and prepare for employment.”
