Sentence examples for sentence prisoners from inspiring English sources

Hindley was not informed of the decision until 1994, when a Law Lords ruling obliged the Prison Service to inform all life sentence prisoners of the minimum period they must serve in prison before being considered for parole.

Among the 428 prisoners to benefit are 143 life sentence prisoners.

The ruling was upheld by the ECHR, which underlined that judges, not home secretaries, should sentence prisoners.

Judges no longer put on black caps to sentence prisoners to hang by the neck until dead.

But life sentence prisoners and those serving indeterminate public protection terms seldom know their EDR until months before they are actually set free.

The release of life sentence prisoners is directed by the independent parole board once they are satisfied they can be safely managed in the community.

Erwin James is a former life sentence prisoner and author of A Life Inside.

An IPP sentence prisoner is eligible to be considered for release by the Parole Board when the minimum term is served.

The charity, Shannon Trust, was started in 1997 after farmer Christopher Morgan, published a book containing letters between him and Tom Shannon, a life sentence prisoner.

On Friday, after a judicial review fought by solicitors for Barbara Gordon-Jones, a life sentence prisoner at Send jail in Surrey, the ban was overturned.

A pioneering prison literacy scheme, which began with correspondence between a Sussex farmer and a life sentence prisoner, is to be officially delivered across the penal estate after ministers recognised its potential to change prisoner lives and cut re-offending.