The Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners will produce Press Releases and Reports. These documents will be made public and can be downloaded as required.

Press Releases & Statements will be updated below, as they become available.



  • Independent Commission calls for national debate on sentencing for serious crime
    The Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners has called for a fundamental reassessment of the policy and practice of sentencing for the most serious of crimes. The number of people given a prison sentence of more than 10 years has more than doubled in a decade. Yet this constant increase in sentence length, at ever greater cost to the taxpayer, has failed to achieve the results which legislators desired. Drawing on evidence received from both victims and prisoners, and a range of criminal justice experts, the Commission concludes in its final report – launched today – that sentencing for serious offences has lost its way and is not working for victims, prisoners, or society as a whole.