Cash handouts for foreign prisoners returning home TRIPLED to £1,500

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Get out of jail and here's £1,500! Cash handouts for foreign prisoners returning home are TRIPLED

Foreign prisoners will be paid up to £1,500 for returning home (posed by model)

Cash incentives to get foreign prisoners serving jail sentences to return to their home countries tripled from last month, the UK Border Agency revealed today. The overall value of the payouts for foreign offenders have been cut 'due to the current economic situation'. But the amount of cash those currently serving sentences will receive increased from £500 to £1,500, chief executive Lin Homer said. The money is designed to be used to help cover expenses such as accommodation, business or medical treatment, she said.

It came as the Border Agency announced it is axing 5,000 more jobs on top of 1,700 already made so far this year. Miss Homer said the amount of cash given to foreign offenders who have served their sentences also rose from last month, up from £500 to £750. But, under the changes, returning foreign nationals will no longer receive any assistance in kind, which was worth between £2,500 and £4,500 under the old arrangements. All foreign prisoners taking advantage of the scheme are given a £500 pre-paid card when they leave the UK. Under the new plans, which came into force on October 1, they will now be able to contact the International Organisation for Migration within a month of returning to their home country with evidence of how they intend to use the money to claim the balance.

This will vary between an extra £250 and £1,000, depending on whether they have already served their sentence or are still behind bars. Foreign nationals leaving under the facilitated return scheme accounted for more than 30 per cent of the 5,535 foreign offenders removed last year, the Home Office said. It follows the Mail's revelation yesterday that David Cameron will launch a bid to send thousands of foreign prisoners back to serve their sentences in their own countries. With more than 11,000 foreign inmates in a prison population of about 85,000 in England and Wales, as many as possible should be transferred to serve their sentences in their own country, the Ministry of Justice said. The move is part of plans to cut the prison population by 3,000 by 2014-15, but could be hampered by prisoner transfer agreements which require the consent of the prisoner and by human rights objections from inmates.

I remember when this was announced in the Mail with a shining report on how Cameron was going to send home all the criminals, luckily the readers were mostly clever enough and pointed out 'there will be some kind of catch' - well here it is, we're paying for these people who have come over here and committed a crime to go back - instead of paying them to leave, send-them-home.

Commit a crime and you get sent home.
Committed a crime in the past? you don't gain entry to the United Kingdom full stop.

In Britain, crime certainly pays.

Thoughts?

[Dean]

Pathetic! You do a crime, live like a happy bunny in prison and get out with £1,500 to return home?! WTF!

[Jessicrawrr]

our countries got money problems?
yet they are paying criminal forigeners money, to go back to their own country.
******* hate this country!

[Dean]

our countries got money problems?
yet they are paying criminal forigeners money, to go back to their own country.
******* hate this country!

Exactly! They make us, British, suffer the cuts, but still feel it's okay to triple the amount of money foreign prisoners get to return home with! In my opinion, they should get nothing. Why has human rights become too "cushy" over the past couple of years? Prisoners get it good.

[Stephen]

I heard there was free rep lolz

This is an absolute outrage, they should make them swim home!

[Jordy]

The BNP have a similar idea don't they of paying people to leave the country? I don't see what's wrong with it to be honest, it gets rid of foreign criminals voluntarily out the country for what is essentially quite a small amount of money, what's the problem? If we were to forcibly remove them from the country it would cost tens of thousands of pounds in the courts no doubt.

Decent policy, thanks for bringing it to my attention

[Dean]

The BNP have a similar idea don't they of paying people to leave the country? I don't see what's wrong with it to be honest, it gets rid of foreign criminals voluntarily out the country for what is essentially quite a small amount of money, what's the problem? If we were to forcibly remove them from the country it would cost tens of thousands of pounds in the courts no doubt.

Decent policy, thanks for bringing it to my attention

Deportation costs tens of thousands of pounds?

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The BNP have a similar idea don't they of paying people to leave the country? I don't see what's wrong with it to be honest, it gets rid of foreign criminals voluntarily out the country for what is essentially quite a small amount of money, what's the problem? If we were to forcibly remove them from the country it would cost tens of thousands of pounds in the courts no doubt.

Decent policy, thanks for bringing it to my attention

Defender of the Tories, no matter what they throw at us.

Why should criminals who are not citizens of the United Kingdom be paid by the law-abiding British taxpayer to leave their country - simply send them home, once you commit a crime you are automatically sent home to your original country.

We have people dying in this country because they can't get cancer drugs due to 'lack of funds' and you think this is a good use of money? crackers.

[Jessicrawrr]

sorry, but how is is a decent policy, still costs our country money to send them home, and their still giving the prisoners money?
they commited a crime in our country, they shouldn't have even stayed in our prisons, they should be shipped over to their countries to face the consiquences!

[Jordy]

Deportation costs tens of thousands of pounds?

Without doubt yes, they go right through the whole court system claiming they'll be tortured in their home country. So not only is there dozens of lawyers to pay for, court sessions and the price of the flight home, they'll also be in the country for a lot longer (maybe years) so yes it costs an absolute fortune to get someone deported. A small payment of £1500 to let someone voluntarily go is an easy and dare I say ideal way of doing things, even the BNP back it haha.