Post by mouse on May 20, 2015 3:56:11 GMT -5
Britain sends home 19 EU crooks.. just 3,541 to go! Deal to send prisoners to own countries to serve sentences descends into farce after six nations fail to sign up to plan
Britain is supposed to be allowed to send home EU nationals jailed in UK
Criminals serve sentence in home country so not at cost to British taxpayer
But system has been hit with problems after six nations failed to sign up
In 2010 David Cameron promised to ‘intervene personally’ to increase the number of foreign prisoners being sent home but last year only 19 were deported
Only 19 of the 3,560 EU prisoners clogging up British jails were sent home last year after a prisoner transfer agreement descended into farce.
The cost to the taxpayer of holding the foreign criminals is an estimated £125million every year.
Under a deal agreed with Brussels, Britain is supposed to be allowed to compulsorily transfer EU nationals who are jailed by the UK courts. The idea is that they will serve their sentences back home – with the taxpayer no longer paying to house them. But the system has been hit by problems.
There are also six member states which have yet to ratify the deal, despite being told to do so by the European Commission. They include Germany, which is the EU’s richest country, Estonia, and Portugal – which has almost 200 criminals in the UK’s crowded jails.
The result is that, despite there being 3,560 EU nationals behind bars, only 19 were sent home last year.
The figures, obtained under Freedom of Information laws, will heap new pressure on the Government to fix the shambles.
In 2010 David Cameron promised to ‘intervene personally’ to increase the number of foreign prisoners being sent home.
For all nationalities, the total remains stuck on 10,500 – roughly the same number as when the Tories first came to power.
Tory MP Philip Hollobone, a long-standing critic of the failure to remove foreign offenders, said: ‘The number of EU prisoners sent back to their countries of origin is pitiful and pathetic
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3088575/Britain-sends-home-19-EU-crooks-just-3-541-go.html#ixzz3afQaxk6a
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Britain is supposed to be allowed to send home EU nationals jailed in UK
Criminals serve sentence in home country so not at cost to British taxpayer
But system has been hit with problems after six nations failed to sign up
In 2010 David Cameron promised to ‘intervene personally’ to increase the number of foreign prisoners being sent home but last year only 19 were deported
Only 19 of the 3,560 EU prisoners clogging up British jails were sent home last year after a prisoner transfer agreement descended into farce.
The cost to the taxpayer of holding the foreign criminals is an estimated £125million every year.
Under a deal agreed with Brussels, Britain is supposed to be allowed to compulsorily transfer EU nationals who are jailed by the UK courts. The idea is that they will serve their sentences back home – with the taxpayer no longer paying to house them. But the system has been hit by problems.
There are also six member states which have yet to ratify the deal, despite being told to do so by the European Commission. They include Germany, which is the EU’s richest country, Estonia, and Portugal – which has almost 200 criminals in the UK’s crowded jails.
The result is that, despite there being 3,560 EU nationals behind bars, only 19 were sent home last year.
The figures, obtained under Freedom of Information laws, will heap new pressure on the Government to fix the shambles.
In 2010 David Cameron promised to ‘intervene personally’ to increase the number of foreign prisoners being sent home.
For all nationalities, the total remains stuck on 10,500 – roughly the same number as when the Tories first came to power.
Tory MP Philip Hollobone, a long-standing critic of the failure to remove foreign offenders, said: ‘The number of EU prisoners sent back to their countries of origin is pitiful and pathetic
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3088575/Britain-sends-home-19-EU-crooks-just-3-541-go.html#ixzz3afQaxk6a
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