{"id":6689,"date":"2025-11-17T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonersadvice.org.uk\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:30:39","slug":"hmp-wandsworth-to-trial-ai-to-stop-early-release-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/17\/hmp-wandsworth-to-trial-ai-to-stop-early-release-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"HMP WANDSWORTH TO TRIAL AI TO STOP EARLY RELEASE ERRORS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A specialist team at HMP Wandsworth will use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to find ‘some quick fixes’ after a spate of mistaken early releases at the prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is understood that AI could be used to read and process paper documents; help staff cross-reference names to ensure that prisoners are no longer hiding their past offences behind aliases; merge different datasets; and calculate release dates and sentences. Currently, many of these jobs are being completed manually by inexperienced staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 12 months to March 2025, 262 prisoners were released in error – a 128% increase from 115 the previous year. According to unions and governors, there has been a recent increase in errors because of complicated early release schemes and a paper-based system, which means many documents are lost between prisons, courts and the Ministry of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has said that the recent, multiple early release errors are ‘a symptom of a system that is close to breaking point\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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