England prison chiefs summoned to meeting with ministers over wrongful releases

1 pointsposted 3 months ago
by zeristor

5 Comments

zeristor

3 months 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

3 months 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

3 months 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.

zeristor

3 months ago

I just checked an image of a French Monopoly board and that has “En Prison”.

Not meaning to other French people, as so can easily happen.

Is there a French equivalent of HackerNews?

beardyw

3 months ago

Both spellings come from the French.