Sign up for our free Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticeThe end seems to be at hand at last for the long-festering scandal of people being sentenced to decades in prison for relatively minor offences. That is, in fact, all that the IPP prisoners ask: not for pardons, or retrials nor immediate unconditional release, but only that someone should respond to their plight. Sadly, it is too late for the 96 IPP prisoners who have taken their own lives. Exasperated, the other day she said of the IPP scandal that “somebody has to just seize the thing and get it sorted”.