On the day Daniel Khalife escaped from HMP Wandsworth, 80 prison officers did not come to work.
Khalife, who is 21 years old, was kept in jail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
He got away from Wandsworth Prison on September 6 by tying himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck.
Khalife got arrested and taken off a bike last Saturday on a path near a canal in West London. This happened because a police officer who was not wearing a uniform saw him.
The number of people who were not at work on September 6 is 39% of all the workers, as reported by justice minister Damian Hinds.
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, the Member of Parliament for Tooting from the Labour Party, inquired about the number of shift slots and the percentage of unfilled slots at Wandsworth Prison on a specific date.
Mr Hinds said that on September 6, 2023, there were 1,594 prisoners being kept at HMP Wandsworth.
Band 3 Prison No. 125 On that day, jail officers showed up for their shift. This equals 61% of the workers who are expected to attend.
‘On that day, 80 officers failed to show up for their scheduled duty at the prison.’
According to the Conservative MP for East Hampshire, staffing levels at the jail were still over the bare minimum necessary, and on the day in issue, every employee in the gatehouse and kitchen was on duty.
He continued, “The staffing level was not found to be a contributing factor” in the preliminary examination into Khalife’s escape.