The Justice Secretary will also announce plans to bring forward legislation that would allow prisoners to be held overseas.
With prisons overcrowded the government is being forced to ease sentences, ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports
The announcement will also see plans to bring forward legislation that would allow prisoners to be held overseas, a move that the Government said follows steps taken by Belgium and Norway.It comes amid serious concerns about overcrowding in British prisons, with 88,225 people currently incarcerated in England and Wales.
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.”
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