Moment man tries to walk back into prison rather than spend another night in hostel with sex offenders
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA man attempted to hand himself into a police station to avoid sleeping in a hostel with sex offenders. Lee Armstrong, 41, was released from prison five weeks ago.
He had been locked up for the past 18 years for robbery after stealing a mobile phone from someone in a pub. His lengthy prison term was a result of an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPPS) sentence, first introduced in April 2005.
These types of sentences have been set up to protect members of the public from serious offenders whose crimes did not merit a life sentence, Hull Live reports. Read more: Instead, offenders serve a minimum term which they must spend in prison.
Upon completing their sentence they can apply to the Parole Board for release where they can either be given parole on supervised licence for at least 10 years or be outright refused for parole.
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