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Almost a month after new security measures and checklists were imposed to stop convicts being released from prison prematurely, Justice Secretary David Lammy has announced 12 more releases-in-error.
It’s not good enough. Let’s have some details from the BBC:
“Justice Secretary David Lammy has said 12 prisoners have been accidentally released in the past three weeks, two of whom are still at large.
“It comes on top of the 91 prisoners who were freed by mistake between April and October in England and Wales.
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“Speaking to the BBC, Lammy said there would always be a “human error” while prisons were using a paper-based system and that the situation would improve once a “completely digital system” was adopted.
“Charlie Taylor, chief inspector of prisons, has said… that prisons were having to adapt to different policies including various early release schemes introduced both by the previous Conservative government and the current Labour one.”
Doesn’t it seem that nobody in government has actually taken control of this, despite it having been a running scandal for weeks?
The key problem is not simply that more accidental releases have been discovered – it is that they have continued to happen after ministers loudly claimed to be fixing the issue.
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Why is the Justice Secretary still wrongly releasing convicts?
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Almost a month after new security measures and checklists were imposed to stop convicts being released from prison prematurely, Justice Secretary David Lammy has announced 12 more releases-in-error.
It’s not good enough. Let’s have some details from the BBC:
“Justice Secretary David Lammy has said 12 prisoners have been accidentally released in the past three weeks, two of whom are still at large.
“It comes on top of the 91 prisoners who were freed by mistake between April and October in England and Wales.
“Speaking to the BBC, Lammy said there would always be a “human error” while prisons were using a paper-based system and that the situation would improve once a “completely digital system” was adopted.
“Charlie Taylor, chief inspector of prisons, has said… that prisons were having to adapt to different policies including various early release schemes introduced both by the previous Conservative government and the current Labour one.”
Doesn’t it seem that nobody in government has actually taken control of this, despite it having been a running scandal for weeks?
The key problem is not simply that more accidental releases have been discovered – it is that they have continued to happen after ministers loudly claimed to be fixing the issue.
To read the rest, head over to The Whip Line.
A subscription unlocks all my analysis and helps keep independent UK political journalism going.
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