Britain's Forgotten Prisoners2024年06月13日上映,在延边卫视 等视频平台播放更新。敬请观看!
简介:With one public protection prisoner recently committing suicide after giving up hope of ever being released, this film is an urgent call for all imprisonment for public protection cases to be reviewed.
In 2005, Scott Rider was convicted of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to a minimum term of 23 months. Under the terms of imprisonment for public protection sentencing (IPP) he was given no release date. The IPP was scrapped in 2012, but 3,000 inmates remain incarcerated, pending the decision that they no longer pose a risk. For Scott, after serving 17 years, it was too much and in June 2022 he took his own life. Martin Read’s film looks at the punishment described by Conservative former Justice Minister Ken Clarke as ‘a stain on the Justice System’, following both the stories of individuals trapped in a Kafka-esque world of labyrinthine bureaucracy that has seen them swallowed up by a system, and those campaigning for their rights as human beings to have their lives returned to them.