The Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence was introduced by then Home Secretary David Blunkett in the disastrous 2003 expansion of criminal justice law.
Prisoners given this sentence had no release date - thousands are still in prison almost twenty years later, even though it was repealed in 2012. Cherrie's brother Tommy is one of them...
The Culture and Justice Reform Podcast Episode 7: The Never-Ending IPP?