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| Britain |
| Separate jails for foreigners in UK |
| 2007-10-24 |
| London: Two prisons have been converted to house only foreign prisoners in an attempt to speed up the deportation process once they complete their sentence, the government said on Wednesday. It follows the sacking of former Home Secretary Charles Clarke last year after it emerged 1,000 foreign prisoners had been freed without being considered for deportation. Justice Minister David Hanson said more foreigners may be held separately if the experiment at Bullwood Hall in Essex and Canterbury Prison in Kent is a success. "In the two prisons ... we have specialist immigration officers who are helping to ensure that we prepare during the sentence for early deportation," he told BBC radio. The number of foreign inmates has doubled in the last 10 years to about 11,000, or one in seven of all prisoners in England and Wales, the government says. Extra cells are being built to ease overcrowding after the prison population reached a record high of more than 81,000 earlier this year. Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers said that separating foreign inmates could help them to receive specialist help. Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert said more foreign prisoners should be sent back to their home country. "Why have these foreign national prisoners not been deported? That is what the Prime Minister promised he would do," he told Sky News. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 I believe the furtherst northern facility would be at Peterhead along the North Sea up in Scotland. The name fits anyway. I'm for sending them all their with the sincere hope the heating system is buggered. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-10-24 22:27 |
| #2 Hope they do. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-24 22:15 |
| #1 Hope they don't send the ham sandwiches to the wrong prison. |
| Posted by: Cliper Ghibelline3346 2007-10-24 22:13 |