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Twelve more prisoners have been mistakenly freed in the past month and two are still at large, David Lammy has said.Earlier data showed 91 accidental releases took place between April 1 and October 31 this year.David Lammy told BBC Breakfast: “Well, I said to Parliament a few weeks ago, I released data at that point, and there had been 91 releases in error up to that point, there have been 12 since then, two are currently at large.”He said he was “pleased that the trend is downwards” after he put some improvements in place in the system.

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00:00I made it clear in Parliament that on a paper-based system there will always be human error and there
00:06has been a human error for all of my lifetime until we move to a completely digital
00:12system. I think it's impossible to rule out error. I said to Parliament a few weeks ago
00:18I released data at that point and there had been 91 releases in error up to that point.
00:27There have been 12 since then. Two are currently at large. That's new information that I'm sharing with you.
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