Makes me laugh that the prison service releasing the wrong people is suddenly news, it’s a weekly occurrence if not more than that.
But it wasn’t until it was a migrant sex offender that it made headlines. Funny that.
Did the prison service routinely tell anyone?
Looking at the stats it is up more than 100% in the last 12 months so actually that is a bit newsworthy.
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I agree, that is a stat that would be worthy of the news headline! But I didn’t even know that, even with all this extra media attention.
I’ve had them lose defendants who are still IN custody.
QMs are going into the prison service now?
BBC Newsbeat reporting this morning 262 occurrences took place Mar24-Mar25.
given there are 365 days a year, and 104 of those are on the weekend - leaving 261 “working days” - that is one a day!
Some 262 prisoners in England and Wales were mistakenly released in the year to March 2025, according to the latest figures, up 128% from 115 the previous year.
taken from - Police hunt for two men mistakenly released from London prison - BBC News
I’ve had them to take a defendant from a London to prison to Cardiff when he was supposed to be appearing in London.
Probably because Cardiff had a bed.
The system is stupid, the prison on the IoW doesn’t do video conferences, so you have to actually go.
Mistakenly released prisoner Billy Smith turns himself in | Prisons and probation | The Guardian
This suddenly makes a lot more sense, I would not be surprised at all if the cause of the recent increase is court resulting, because the new software for court results has been an absolute nightmare.