‘Even one is too many,’ culture secretary Lisa Nandy tells Sky News
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The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has vowed that Labour is going to “grip” the prison crisis as the government continues to come under pressure after a number of high-profile cases of prisoners being wrongly released.
Speaking to Sky News’ Trevor Phillips this morning, Nandy confirmed that four wrongly released prisoners are still at large.
She said it was a “completely unacceptable” situation where an average of 22 people are wrongly released from prisons each month in England and Wales, a rise from an average of 17 wrong releases under a large period over the previous administration.
