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Mr White developed paranoid schizophrenia while in custody as an IPP prisoner. He was repeatedly smashing his face on the floor of the maximum-security HMP Manchester. He set himself on fire in his cell. Three psychiatrists called for him to be moved to hospital and two medical reports warned that his lengthy incarceration was creating impermeable barriers to his recovery, yet he was repeatedly refused a hospital bed. So, hurrah, he will now get appropriate treatment, but we cannot continue depending on high-profile campaigns and massive political intervention for IPP prisoners to access what should be an obvious conclusion when they get ill. If we stick with the status quo position, as somebody else mentioned—