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Culture secretary also condemns MPs who dismiss BBC as ‘institutionally biased’ in swipe at Badenoch and Farage

Exclusive: Removing courts’ power would help vulnerable adults and children and ‘free up jail spaces’, experts say, in wake of recent manhunts to find missing prisoners released by mistake

HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes

Robert Jenrick said he would ask David Lammy to make clear how many prisoners have been accidentally released and how many are still at large.

Prisons minister Lord Timpson said the southwest London jail had been given the ‘green light’ to use artificial intelligence

Over the weekend, it was reported that a total of four offenders had been released in error, with two released in June this year, and two in 2024.

Over the weekend, it emerged that a total of four offenders freed in error – two released in June this year, and two in 2024 – remained at large.

Asked about accidental prisoner releases, Lisa Nandy said ‘even one is too many’ but the government is ‘gripping’ the crisis

The Culture Secretary said her Cabinet colleague had weighed up which detail to share in the Commons.

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Some 262 inmates were mistakenly let out in the year leading to March 2025