Lammy: Govt have 'mountain to climb' over prison releases

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Justice Secretary David Lammy says the Government have a "mountain to climb" to investigate high numbers of prisoners being released mistakenly, adding that he has commissioned a review into the issue. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We have found out that the release that has caused concern this week

00:05was actually before I introduced those checks just a few weeks ago

00:12following the release of Kobatu.

00:15And the other prisoner was a court mistake, not in fact a prison mistake.

00:20But the truth is, I've been in post two months.

00:23The rate of release by error is too high.

00:27It has to come down.

00:29That's why I've asked Dame Lynn Owens to look at this,

00:34former Deputy Met Commissioner, to review this

00:38and come back to me as quickly as she's able to do.

00:41And this is a paper-based system that obviously involves human error.

00:46We had 800 errors under the last government.

00:49This has now gone on for a generation.

00:51Our prison system is in crisis.

00:54So we have to bear down on this, but we have a mountain to climb.

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