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At a glance

• An AI chatbot is to be deployed in crisis-hit HMP Wandsworth to stop more inmates being wrongly freed

• The Government has given the green light to the jail in southwest London using AI to try to toughen up release checks

• Forty more inmates could be wrongly released before Christmas from jails across the country if tighter security is not implemented, a minister has admitted

An AI chatbot is to be used in HMP Wandsworth as a “quick fix” to try to stop more inmates being wrongly freed from the crisis-hit prison .

Lord Timpson said the southwest Lo

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