Farms: Jailed for Life for Minor Crimes: The UK's Forgotten Prisoners
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James Burns is voluntarily spending 30 days in solitary confinement. Learn more about the project at solitary.vice.com: http://bit.ly/2icVUGb ---- In a three-month investigation, VICE News uses Freedom of Information laws, exclusive interviews, and prison reports to uncover the scandal of the 4,612 prisoners serving life sentences under abolished legislation — some for relatively minor crimes. From 2005, judges in England and Wales started giving out a new kind of life sentence for offenses such as shoplifting, minor criminal damage, and affray (fighting in public). Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs) were found to breach the European Convention on Human Rights, and the government scrapped the sentence in 2012. But nobody did anything about the prisoners already inside. Three-quarters of them have completed their mandatory minimum sentence, but still have no release date, at a cost to the taxpayer of $180 million a year. Sixteen inmates have killed themselves since the sentence's abolition. Speaking to inmates, their families, lawyers, and a Parole Board veteran, VICE News exposes the UK's forgotten prisoners. Watch "Institutionalized: Mental Health Behind Bars" - http://bit.ly/1iYLUx5 Read "Exclusive: VICE News Investigates the UK's 4,500 Prisoners Doing Life for Minor Crimes" - http://bit.ly/1Liz2rz Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos
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Don't commit GBH with intent then. Complaining about being inside for 8 and a half years. LEL
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salty potato u are ok with pedos and terrorists walking free tho ???
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Gotta love "Organized" Government
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Poor what ???
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Now let's get on to the prison officers, they get keys and they think they're rambo. - if anyone knows what that's from I rate you
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Spent some time inside while IPP was active and by far the guys on IPP were the most dangerous not because of the crimes they had committed but when they have given up on ever being released. a standard sentence has an end date you're going to try and avoid trouble 3 years into a 6 year sentence etc but when you've lost all hope of ever getting out it can start to change people into people who are no longer safe to release which just compounds the problem.
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criminal is criminal no matter if the crime is big or small ones a theif is always will be theif ones a criminal always will be a criminal letting the on the street is dangerouse for the tax payers
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Don't break the law then. Sorry no sympathy
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tbh I think the Mum kinda undermined the whole case when she said he'd changed soo much in the last 3-4yrs. That's probably y we kept him in prison beyond the sentence. Glad it worked. Hope Johnny doesn't call on her to the parole board!
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Given the chronic overcrowding of prisons and shortage of space, I'm more inclined to believe there is another reason why they are being detained when everything is saying they are trying to get the low level offenders out.
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The saddest part is she will be left by this scumbag when he comes out she is wasting her life
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Jesus dats fucked up, I'm Irish so I'm grand
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The uk corporation is corrupt and false. This is the least of their interests. It's just never reported or talked about. The main stream media has its own agenda as do smaller outlets- and even then what's reported is always the best. Like this documentary, its passive and only reports it then doesn't care and just moves on. A tut, a a swig of the head won't sort it. Why haven't vice laid out what you can do about it? But then they haven't even answered such simple questions like how, when, where, and why this act was implemented. It's an issue which was addressed at all.
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life for shop lifting? what a load of shit
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what a load of shit
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boo hoo
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Why not interview the person given an IPP for shoplifting? I know... because it never happened. It's the ones getting IPPs that are getting fair sentences and the rest of the prison population who are given an easy ride.
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sat there interviewing in his Nike trainers hahaha, Vice news, what a laugh
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Jails are crowded overpopulated understaffed and have no real possibility of rehabilitation by incarceration. Jails just mask a problem in America by sweeping people under the rug but the crime rates continue to increase and with younger people . Maybe they should rethink how to refine the system so that criminals are punished but still refrain from becoming violent offenders. Also America s justice system is as corrupt as possible. No one gets fair representation because they are already behind bars and rely heavily on the justice system to represent and incriminate them at the same time. If I rely on a bias judge who is used to giving people time before they hear the case, then what are the chances they will behave appropriately for me. Its not about guilty or innocence its about who controls the rules and how much can they get all away with
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can't do the time, don't do the crime