The U.K. has a growing issue: they just can’t seem to keep their prisoners in prison. In the past two weeks alone, the government has accidentally released three inmates, prompting urgent manhunts as police try to figure out where the heck they went.

“I am absolutely outraged and appalled by the mistaken release of a foreign criminal wanted by the police,” David Lammy, U.K. deputy prime minister and justice secretary, said in a statement about the most recent incident. “The Metropolitan police is leading an urgent manhunt, and my officials have been working through the night to take him back to prison.”

Why is this happening? It kind of depends on who you ask. In general, the feeling seems to be that Britain’s prisons are overcrowded, resulting in managers being pressured to move prisoners around. This constant movement opens a window for accidental releases.

Whether the answer to that problem is “more prisons” or “fewer arrests and shorter sentences,” however, is a matter of opinion. Regardless of the solution, I think we can all agree that “randomly letting people out to make room for additional prisoners” isn’t a great place to start.