00:00AI chatbots here at HMP Wandsworth to prevent future mistaken releases.
00:09This is what Minister of State for Prisons, Lord Timpson, has said Wandsworth Prison has been given the green light to use as a so-called quick fix.
00:21After we saw two manhunts last week for two separate prisoners who had both been wrongly released from this prison.
00:31It remains unclear how exactly these AI chatbots would work, but it comes after a specialised digital team was sent in following some of those headlines last week.
00:44Responding to questions in the upper chamber on Monday, Lord Timpson said the number of releases per prison varies dramatically, but he added in Wandsworth it is 2,000 a year.
00:59The AI systems would aim to prevent wrongful releases by being used when any prisoner is released.
01:08This would include a cross-reference for aliases, particularly important, as some offenders can have more than 20.
01:1724-year-old Brahim Khadur Sharif was mistakenly freed on the 29th of October.
01:24He wasn't arrested until Friday, while another inmate, 35-year-old Billy Smith, handed himself back in on Thursday, three days after he was wrongly released.
01:37And following what was evidently a failed manhunt.
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