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Baroness Deech (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 May 2025

Debate

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Contribution

My Lords, does it not add insult to injury that, after a person has spent the whole of their life wasted in jail, they do not get immediate compensation as soon as they are released? I have read that one of them has been waiting for years. There should be no cap on the compensation; it should be given absolutely immediately so that the person emerging from prison has something to fall back on. We cannot let them loose on the streets with no compensation.

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