Inmates Offered £1,500 To Quit UK Jails!

Jae Swift · 08-11-2007, 00:44

Foreign prisoners are being offered £1,500 if they agree to serve the rest of their sentence in their own country...

Inmates offered £1,500 to quit UK jails - Top Stories - News - Mirror.co.uk

LYNX1 · 08-11-2007, 05:54

Sounds like a good idea....a lot cheaper than keeping them here

WillowTheWhisp · 08-11-2007, 05:56

Why can't we just deport them? Other countries do.

thomas.lee · 08-11-2007, 08:42

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Why can't we just deport them? Other countries do.

Because this is England.. could we ever do anything so simple?

Bonnyboy · 08-11-2007, 10:40

Deportation ASAP in my book....without any handouts

Jae Swift · 08-11-2007, 13:30

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Originally Posted by LYNX1

Sounds like a good idea....a lot cheaper than keeping them here

They'd just use the money to get return flights, lol.

slinky · 08-11-2007, 13:32

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Originally Posted by Jae Swift

They'd just use the money to get return flights, lol.

LOL very true.

Send them back from where they come from. NO money options.... come on Britain wake up!!

kathleen_firth · 08-11-2007, 13:47

i think they should do it any way
they shouldnt have to pay them

MargaretR · 08-11-2007, 13:58

If they accept the cash they are in effect volunteering to be repatriated to a jail in their home country, so our government wont have to consider whether they will be tortured and/or murdered when the get back there. They will in effect be forgoing any claim they may have had to 'refugee status'.
I suppose this could cut down a lot of paperwork.

blazey · 08-11-2007, 16:15

Perhaps that there is more to it than just giving them money?

'take it and dont come back' situation and 'sign on the dotted line' to agree to it? There would have to be some form of contract otherwise they'd just be throwing money away.

I think its a good idea, much more cost effective than keeping them in prison here.

Jae Swift · 08-11-2007, 16:50

How do they get here in first place? Illegal immigrants.. Sneak over, who cares about a contract if you're over illegally anyway?

blazey · 08-11-2007, 16:52

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Originally Posted by Jae Swift

How do they get here in first place? Illegal immigrants.. Sneak over, who cares about a contract if you're over illegally anyway?

Oh I thought it just said foreigners, so included legal ones as well. I dont know, I havent seen it in the newspaper I got today. What paper is it in?

Jae Swift · 08-11-2007, 16:52

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Originally Posted by blazey

Oh I thought it just said foreigners, so included legal ones as well. I dont know, I havent seen it in the newspaper I got today. What paper is it in?

I think it was the mirror yesterday..

blazey · 08-11-2007, 16:59

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Originally Posted by Jae Swift

I think it was the mirror yesterday..

Isn't the mirror a tabloid paper? They tend to miss out the most of the facts to create public outrage or fear, dependant on what the story is. So you should bear in mind that the actually proposal is probably quite different to whats been said in there.

Ianto.W. · 09-11-2007, 14:31

Ask yourself would you swap a cushy 3 squares a day nick for a dump in the third world where you buy or have brought in food.For the price of a meal at the Savoy?