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<p>Wayne Williams, Leroy Douglas,  Abdullahi Suleman, Shaun Anton Lloyd and Joshua McRae are just some of those given IPP sentences</p>

Life in prison for stealing a phone? End this outrage, prime minister

Editorial: The law of open-ended sentencing was abolished 14 years ago, yet it continues to blight lives. Ending IPP injustice for the 2,400 prisoners still in jail is not about being soft on crime – it is about upholding justice itself
<p>Alfonso Ribeiro, Will Smith and Daphne Reid in ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air' played a dysfunctional family</p>
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