The United kingdom is set to send non-British prisoners
back to their respective countries, more
than 200 prisoners has set to be sent back to
Nigeria.
Punch reports that talks are continuing into
reaching compulsory prisoner transfer
agreement, which could see more than 534 criminals from Nigeria currently in
UK jails repatriated.
UK Prisons Minister, Jeremy Wright,has told
MailOnline how ‘more foreign prisoners must
serve their sentences in their own countries home.’
Ministers have been ordered to step up
efforts to end the scandal of more than one
in eight prisoners being from overseas.
British Prime Minister, David Cameron has also
vowed
to end the practice of the British taxpayer
picking up the bill for criminals with no
business in the UK.
The Prime Minister said in 2010 that he
would ‘intervene’ to send more
foreign criminals back home.
Britain has even made clear it would pay to
build new prisons in countries like Nigeria to
speed up the process of sending foreign
criminals home. Up to £1m has been
promised to upgrade Nigerian jails, including
a new wing at Kirikiri Prison in Lagos.
But to date little or no progress has been made.
When the coalition was formed there were
11,135 foreign prisoners in UK jails, and this
figure has only fallen by just three per cent since
to 10,786.
Each felon costs an average of around
£40,000 a year to keep inside
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