The Ministry of Justice freed 179 prisoners by mistake in the year to March, official new figures show.
The total – covering jails in England and Wales – was down from 262 freed in error in the previous 12 months.
But it was still higher than the 115 seen in the year before that.
The latest figures come after Justice Secretary David Lammy came under fire at the end of last year as a series of high-profile
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