LOST keys have landed prison bosses with a five-figure bill after a staff slip-up prompted hundreds of locks to be replaced.

Figures released to the Evening Mail following a freedom of information request have shown a single set of keys lost at HMP Haverigg in May has set the jail back £30,450.

The lost keys, which were later recovered, prompted the jail to change 410 locks and issue 500 new keys as a security precaution.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.