Taxpayers Foot Staggering £629 Million Bill For Foreign Nationals In UK Prisons

Taxpayers Foot Staggering £629 Million Bill For Foreign Nationals In UK Prisons Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, UK taxpayers are forking out £629 million a year to house 10,487 foreign national offenders in British prisons — a bill that could pay for 16,500 police officers or 15,000 NHS nurses. While Labour claims it’s deporting record numbers, an ex-prison governor has torn into the “staggering” cost and the “incredibly slow process” that leaves dangerous foreig...

By Tyler Durden