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Originally Posted by stanleybabe
If you google "facilitated returns scheme", you can read Prison Service Instruction 21/2007, rather than believe what you read in the tabloids. The scheme is open to prisoners who have finished their custodial sentence and are being detained only under immigration powers. The cash they are given is the equivalent of the discharge grant given to British prisoners (currently £46), the rest is given to them in kind in their own country.
Stanleybabe  |
Fair enough, I can well believe that, as the tabloids are not the most reliable source of balanced news. However, it would still seem logical to me to deport foreign prisoners back to their country of origin. As for the incentive to those countries, offer them the financial equivalent of what it would have cost to jail them over here. It would then free up a fair number of prison places for our own lowlife scum!