Nearly 3,000 people are languishing in jail unfairly. We must set them free | Bob Neill

There is consensus in parliament that indeterminate sentences are unjust. So why is the government dragging its heels?Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon) is chair of the justice select committeeLast year I tried to lay to rest a ghost that has haunted four successive governments: the fate of those still in prison under imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences. The sentences, now widely acknowledged as both wrong in principle and unworkable in practice, were described by the former supreme court jus