England prison chiefs summoned to meeting with ministers over wrongful releases

1 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by zeristor

4 Comments

zeristor

8 hours ago

I was following this keenly, since I actually live in Epping.

With the original prisoner release error it was very telling that the minister railed the incompetence of the clerk. When I knew full well that there’s a whole system that must have been tettering for years.

It highlighted their lack of real experience.

zeristor

8 hours ago

Perhaps the game Monopoly could do with an additional Get out of Jail card.

I wanted to type Gaol, but feared that would be pretentious.

fredoralive

8 hours ago

The UK version of Monopoly uses Jail, not Gaol. It looks like it did from the first UK editions in the 1930s, so even then I guess Gaol was out of fashion.

beardyw

7 hours ago

Both spellings come from the French.