More foreign offenders to be sent home amid UK Gov plans to ease prison pressure

The Government will pledge to send more foreign prisoners home, with ministers under pressure to act amid serious pressure on prison capacity. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has already signalled plans to send fewer “low-level offenders” to prison, as he prepares to set out a range of reforms covering England and Wales later on Monday.

Currently, foreign criminals can be removed up to a year before the end of their sentence. Ministers want to now bring that forward six months, in a move is hoped will save £70,000 per prisoner. “Instead of letting foreign nationals take up space in our prisons at vast expense to the law-abiding public we will take action to get them out of the country and stop them from ever returning.”

Shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “Removals of foreign national offenders have plummeted by 40% since 2010 under the Conservatives.

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