"What I can tell you is that under the last government, for quite some time, there were, on average, 17 wrong releases. Under this government that has risen. It's 22 that is completely unacceptable. It was unacceptable before, it's unacceptable now. Even one is too many, and the justice secretary is gripping this by appointing Dame Lynne Owens, who is the former director of the National Crime Agency, to make sure that we really grip this"
"She said it was a completely unacceptable situation where an average of 22 people are wrongly released from prisons each month in England and Wales, a rise from an average of 17 wrong releases under a large period over the previous administration. Nandy said the antiquated paper-based system within the Prison Service partly explained the wrongful releases and said Labour inherited a broken prison system which was nearly full to capacity when Keir Starmer won the general election last year."
Four wrongly released prisoners remain at large. An average of 22 people are wrongly released from prisons each month in England and Wales, up from an average of 17 under the previous administration. The antiquated paper-based system within the Prison Service, developed in the 1980s, is cited as a partial cause. Labour describes the inherited prison system as broken and nearly full to capacity. The justice secretary has appointed Dame Lynne Owens to lead remedial action. The Prison Officers' Association calls for a complete overhaul of sentencing calculation and discharge processes and warns against blaming individual officers.
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