FOREIGNERS ONLY!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 06:47AM So what do you make of the news that the Prison Service has converted two jails so that they hold only foreign national prisoners? It appears that Bullwood Hall, Essex, and Canterbury Prison, Kent, have been taking foreign offenders since the 2006 crisis over prisoners who had not been deported. The bit that stunned me was when Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers said that the two prisons had been given specific services for foreign inmates, including language support and advice on immigration issues.
Wow - advice on immigration issues? What does THAT mean? I wonder if any other countries are creating prisons exclusively for the detention of foreign prisoners or might it be that Britain is just a complete soft touch with a Government and senior Prison bureaucracy that puts the needs of convicts first?
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Reader Comments (3)
If we have prisons where the inmates are to be deported on completion of their sentence then it should be that the prison in question will not forget to complete the appropriate paperwork before completion of a sentence. Why inmates should be given advice on immigration issues defeats me as they, hopefully, will not be coming back.
Peter, the prison is to act as the immigration agent for the criminals so that they can stay in this country after their release. You don't think that NuLab would want to deport their future voters, do you?
I am puzzled as to why the UK taxpayer has to fund prison places for foreign convicts when, in fact, they should be deported immediately from the jurisdictin of the UK. I am just wondering if our so called EU partners would have to put up with the human filth the UK is burdened with, I think it is unlikely.
The UK seems to be the dumping groud for every peice of human gargage the rest of the world does not want, and we are unable to do anything about it because the powers that be are not interested in what the people have to say.