Amy-Clare Martin

'Without support, my son would not be here’. A mother warns Labour against scrapping legal protections for children with special educational needs. My latest for @Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Ten more years of injustice: Figures lay bare scale of IPP scandal The latest IPP annual report shows at current rates it will be another decade until the remaining IPP prisoners are freed - the government must do more. With @HagopianAlicja independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

How aristocrat Constance Marten fell from high society darling to being locked up for killing her baby independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

🇬🇧 Prisoners On Cruel Indefinite Jail Term Are 'Failed By State' ▫Exclusive: Alex Chalk KC, who ushered in licence reforms for IPP prisoners, urged his successor to give fresh proposals to end scandal ‘careful consideration’ ▫@AmyClareMartin ▫is.gd/M8m8fC…

‘This is a state overreach, and ultimately it has acted in a way which is overbearing, unfair and almost totalitarian’ Alex Chalk urges Labour to consider new measures to help IPP prisoners in chat with @Independent & @Trapped_Pod independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

IPP prisoners would finally get a release date under proposals put forward by the @TheHowardLeague and former lord chief justice Lord Thomas. Let's hope the government listens independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

"Thomas will now be a patient and not a prisoner.” Could not be happier for Thomas White and his family, who have fought so hard for him to get the care he needs while he languished on an IPP sentence independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

7 in 10 recalled IPP prisoners have committed no further crime but are held for more than two years on average. Releasing them would free up a prison, but they have been left out of the government’s scheme to reduce the recall population independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Revealed: The staggering cost of detaining prisoners on ‘inhumane’ IPP jail terms - and you’re paying for it independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Referrals for treatment for ketamine use are soaring. Barney was left with agonising bladder symptoms as he struggled to stop using the powerful tranquilliser. His mother has bravely shared his story: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

‘I’m terrified’: Disabled benefit claimants on the impact of Labour’s £5 billion cuts to welfare independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Four more prisoners serving IPP jail terms have taken their own lives in Britain’s prisons, taking the total number of self-inflicted deaths to 94. A further 37 released IPP prisoners took their own lives in the community in the five years to April 2024: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

ICYMI: In the fight against knife crime, conversations often focus on tougher punishments alone. I visited a classroom tackling the root causes of youth violence as they fight to save children from a life of gangs and exploitation: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Thomas White has previously set himself alight in his cell as his mental health deteriorates on an IPP sentence, which has left him languishing for 13 years for robbing a phone. Sadly, he has suffered another crisis in prison: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

EXCL: ‘I stole a mobile phone almost 20 years ago – I’ve spent half my life in prison’ Leroy Douglas has begged for his freedom, describing his IPP jail term as ‘cripplingly cruel’ as he languishes in prison independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

EXCL: Four in ten prisoners who took their own lives in custody were denied adequate healthcare before their deaths, according to damning new figures exposing the scale of neglect inside Britain’s overcrowded prisons. independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

The UN special rapporteur on torture has long been critical of IPP sentences. Speaking to me, she has renewed her calls for leaders to look at resentencing, warning the British government is ‘very likely’ breaching some IPP prisoners’ human rights: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Like others who witnessed the horrors of the Southport attack, Colin Parry has struggled with flashbacks and nightmares. He confronted an agitated Axel Rudakubana moments before the stabbing, but had no idea he was armed: independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

"If I had known, he wouldn’t have been going next door. But we couldn’t see anything on him. All I remember is his bright green hoodie and the Covid mask. All I could see was his eyes." ✍️ @AmyClareMartin in Southport for @Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

This Wednesday, 15th January we are holding a drop-in session for MPs in Parliament, where MPs can learn about IPP sentences. Please help raise awareness, ask your MP to come. Send them the flyer below or tag them here. Further change needs to happen.