article_snippet: In a highly critical report, Mr Hardwick warned that the system for identifying and managing prisoners released on temporary licence (ROTL) are woefully inadequate.
article_snippet: The number of prisoners serving indeterminate sentences, which are handed out to the most dangerous convicts, and allowed out on day release has increased from 38,000 to more than 90,000 between 2008 and 2012.
article_snippet: But Mr Hardwick said the systems for managing these offenders in open prisons 'lack clarity and are insufficiently robust'.
article_snippet: Mr Hardwick added: 'There is a general presumption in favour of granting ROTL.
article_snippet: The purpose of individual releases is not clear, and there are insufficient safeguards to manage the risks presented by some higher-risk-of-harm prisoners.'
article_snippet: Graham Buck said protection arrangements 'are not routinely reviewed when prisoners transfer to open prisons' and 'risk assessment processes are inadequate'.
highlights_snippet: Chief inspector of prisons says the decision was 'woefully inadequate'
  Report also criticises decision to release offender on temporary licence .
  