From The Guardian: “A prisoner driven to psychosis after being jailed for more than a decade under an indeterminate sentence has finally been moved to a hospital for a treatment after a six-year battle by his family and supporters.
Thomas White was sentenced to a minimum of two years in custody under the imprisonment for public protection (IPP) scheme in 2012 for stealing a mobile phone, but remains in prison over a decade later.
His family said the undefined nature of his sentence, and spending years in prison without a release date, caused White to develop serious mental health problems, and he was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
āHe just started to get sicker and sicker ā the present system is definitely psychiatric abuse,ā his sister, Clara White, said. āWithout a doubt, he would have died in prison. He was dying. He was dying in front of us. We could see it. But now he has a chance of survival.ā
