WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Stanley]

See THIS BBC report of the end of a very embarrassing incident.
A migrant who was mistakenly released from prison and then re-arrested will be deported "this week", David Lammy has said. Hadush Kebatu was arrested in the Finsbury Park area of north London at 08:30 GMT on Sunday, bringing an end to a 48-hour manhunt that began after he was let go in error from HMP Chelmsford. Kebatu, who was sentenced last month for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping while living in an asylum hotel, was due to be deported when he was mistakenly set free by prison staff. Justice Secretary Lammy said he would outline the terms of reference for a full independent inquiry into the release in Parliament on Monday. Earlier, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said an investigation was already under way, adding: "We must make sure this doesn't happen again."
Perhaps a good start would be to properly staff and fund the Prison Service..... Perhaps, (God forbid) take it back into government control instead of farming it out to the lowest bidding contractor.

[PanBiker]

I'm fairly sure that I heard a report last week that said that about 1,000 inmates per year are wrongly released each year. So this is not an isolated incident but a product of underfunding of the service, not enough officers to do all the checks and balances.