"David Lammy has said the government has a mountain to climb to tackle the prisons crisis and insisted he was not equipped with all the detail when questioned in parliament the previous day about a mistaken prisoner release. After a fraudster mistakenly freed from prison handed himself in on Thursday, the justice secretary said he had been right not to provide details to MPs at prime minister's questions on Wednesday about the release of a sex offender who remains at large."
"It follows intense pressure over the mistaken release of the two prisoners from HMP Wandsworth in south London. William Smith, a convicted fraudster, was filmed waving to cameras and hugging his partner before he walked back into jail on Thursday having been mistakenly released by a court on Monday. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, a sex offender from Algeria who was released from Wandsworth by mistake last week, remains at large."
David Lammy said the government has a mountain to climb to tackle the prisons crisis and that he lacked full detail when questioned about a mistaken prisoner release. A convicted fraudster, William Smith, was mistakenly released and later handed himself in. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a 24-year-old sex offender released by mistake from HMP Wandsworth, remains at large. A prior mistaken release prompted a checklist and a meeting of prison governors. Lammy announced plans to overhaul the paper-based system across prisons, courts and the Ministry of Justice and cited 800 errors under the last government.
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