The Latest Breaking News from the Parole Board

Zahid Iqbal has been behind bars since 2013

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: We urge ministers to read Haroon Ahmed’s story and to summon the courage to end the injustice of indefinite sentences for 2,400 other prisoners

Jon Venables, convicted of the 1993 murder of James Bulger, has been granted another parole review, reigniting debate over public safety, rehabilitation and lifelong anonymity more than 30 years after the crime.

Jon Venables will have his case heard by parole chiefs more than two years after his last appeal.

Open prisons have minimal security and allow eligible prisoners to spend most of their day out of prison on licence

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The plight of hundreds of inmates trapped in a grim loop between indefinite sentences and mental health treatment within our prison system must be resolved

JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Exclusive: After serving 13 years on a ‘hopeless, desperate, barbaric’ indefinite jail term, Taylor Atkinson ended his own life. This week an inquest concluded that his IPP sentence was likely the most significant reason for his death, Amy-Clare Martin reports

Pitchfork was jailed in 1988 for rape and murder of two teenage girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth

The Parole Board decided to keep him behind bars and did not recommend him to be transferred to open prison.