Episode 2: A Kafkaesque Maze Aaron Graham, who was given an IPP sentence back in 2006, is the longest straight serving IPP prisoner. IPP stands for Imprisonment for Public Protection. It’s a now abolished indeterminate sentence which the cross-party Justice Select Committee called 'irredeemably flawed' in October 2022. Aaron has been in prison for nineteen years without parole on a two-and-a-half-year tariff, and he still doesn’t know when he’s getting out. Aaron’s sister Cherrie Nichol has been campaigning for Aaron and others like him serving the IPP sentence, to get them out. Today on Trapped, we hear Aaron and Cherrie’s story.
Samantha, thank you for writing about this difficult and contentious subject.