Dozens let out of prison under emergency release scheme were freed by mistake

https://news.sky.com/story/dozens-let-out-of-prison-under-emergency-release-scheme-were-freed-by-mistake-13221988

Posted by topotaul

14 Comments

  1. “Labour will stop the Conservative chaos and return law and order to our streets.”

    Looking forward to this happening!

  2. rocc_high_racks on

    >One of those mistakenly released is understood to have allegedly reoffended, charged with ‘intentionally touching’ a woman. He was recalled to prison.

  3. > One of those mistakenly released is understood to have allegedly reoffended, charged with ‘intentionally touching’ a woman. He was recalled to prison.

    They should have just released those with a home that they could be tagged and restricted to. Instead they did it on the nature of the offence but clearly messed up here in a terrible way.

  4. Minimum-Geologist-58 on

    My understanding is that being released from prison, early or late due to administration errors was relatively common?

  5. Incompetence in a red tie instead of a blue.

    Here I thought a Labour government would be a return to adults in government, yet since the end of the summer recess I’ve been consistently disappointed.

  6. Reasoned_Watercress on

    Of course they’ve already fucked this up as well.

    > One of those mistakenly released is understood to have allegedly reoffended, charged with ‘intentionally touching’ a woman. He was recalled to prison.

    How many touchers did they let out?

  7. PursuitOfMemieness on

    Actually reading the article, it appears that those mistakenly released were released because the offence they committed was wrongly listed which is a) a dumb thing to blame on politicians, it’s clearly an administrative error at a much lower level and b) an especially dumb thing to blame on the current government, given the mistake was almost certainly made before they were in power.

  8. Important_Hunter8381 on

    Let’s just bring back the death sentence. If we have this many people in prison, let’s just put them to sleep and move on. The world is over populated. Cheaper than building prisons and better for the environment.