The Justice Secretary will announce new reforms today
The Government is set to announce plans to try and slash the number of prisoners amid fears the system is becoming overcrowded. More foreign prisoners could be removed under new proposals, as ministers face mounting pressure to act.
The Ministry of Justice says more than 3,100 foreign criminals were removed in the year to March but 10,500 remain locked up in England and Wales. Under new plans, foreign offenders will be removed sooner into their sentences with more caseworkers deployed to speed up removals. “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.” Ahead of MPs hearing the plans, the Justice Secretary used an article in the Sunday Telegraph to say that sending less serious offenders into prison was the 'wrong use' of the system.
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