An urgent review of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) would be held, he added.
He said the government should make parole reviews happen quickly for prisoners serving IPP sentences.
Under an IPP, offenders convicted of a wide range of offences are given a minimum tariff.
According to Parole Board figures, there are currently 3, 000 IPP prisoners and 50 new ones every month.
The IPP sentence has now been abolished under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
In handing down its decision on Tuesday, the European court criticised the way the UK government introduced IPP sentences.
The logjam ended in late June when the IETF leadership voted to make two key IPP-related documents proposed standards.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
The IETF leadership's decision was hailed by the printer industry as an important milestone for widespread acceptance of IPP.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
It was swamped with hundreds of applications for prisoner release after the introduction of Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPP).
Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show there were 2, 468 IPP prisoners in this category as of 19 January this year.
Prison governors have called for the immediate release of almost 2, 500 prisoners who were jailed indefinitely for the public's protection (IPP).
Under development since 1996, IPP has the support of more than 25 companies, including Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Xerox, Lexmark and Hewlett-Packard.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
Final approval from the IETF on all IPP-related documents is expected to take another year, but it now appears to be a formality.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
And it should get a clear message to customers that IPP is something they should be looking for in products they're going to buy.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
The IPP deals were made in the early 1990s, when the country was desperate for generating capacity amid blackouts of as long as 12 hours a day.
The IETF approval "tells the world that IPP is to be taken seriously, " says Carl-Uno Manros, chair of the IPP working group and a principal engineer with Xerox.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
Of those IPP prisoners who had passed their minimum sentence, some 276 of these were still behind bars more than two years later as of 5 February this year.
The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) replaces proprietary printing services with a single method for sending print jobs from a computer to any authorized printer connected to an IP network.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
Standardization of IPP was slowed by clashes between the vendor-led IPP working group and the leadership of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which questioned the protocol's design, scalability and security.
CNN: Technology - Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol
The IPP system should be replaced with a much tougher regime which would see more serious offenders receiving life sentences, and offenders who commit serious sexual and violent offences spending two thirds of their sentence in prison rather than the half they spend under the current system, he said.
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