Should the government deport all non English prisoners to empty our prisons to save the tax payer money?
First, you cannot ’empty our prisons’ because there will still be many British (that still includes Scots) prisoners filling them. Secondly, deporting non-British criminals does not always serve the cause of justice because, as some have pointed out, their home country might not keep them in jail. The problem of what to do with foreigners who commit crimes here is a hard one to solve. In many cases, the living conditions provided here, even in prison, are better than found in the prisoners’ homeland! How then can it be punishment for them? The only way to make it a punishment is for the British govt to opt out of the human rights conventions of the UN and EU and make our prisons for non-British inmates really hell, e.g. bread and water, chain gangs in the quarries, slopping up, etc. No libraries, free Open University courses, television room, snooker tables, air-conditioned gyms, etc. That will help cut down costs as well. Does that sound too draconian?
