Presumably they’ve ruled out prisons in northern European countries perceived to be too humane; imagine the Sun/Daily Mail thundering about “hardworking taxpayers’ money spent to give criminal scum holidays in luxury Finnish prisons”, along with a photo of a cell that looks vastly better than the typical London rental opportunity. So I’m guessing they’ll be asking around, say, Turkey, Morocco and various former Soviet republics. Possibly the US as well, though that may involve leaving the ECHR.
Why not good old Australia?
It is tradition.
Just declare the prisoners and send them to Ruanda, that worked out great last time.
No way this makes any sense. Prisoners still have rights. English language interaction, visitation, etc.
Not if they’ve been declared as subhuman. We seem to be heading that way.
They do, right up until a government decides to do as it pleases.
Every single right was hard fought for, and though some people will put in huge effort to resist the introduction of this measure, most of those who agree it is terrible won’t do a thing.
Meantime the rest of the population harbour very dark thoughts on the matter. If anything, even Tory governments are far more liberal than the general UK public.
Australia 2.0
Australia actually did that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Centre
Fucking Naru nightmare island. The Dollop did a pretty decent podcast on it a few years back.
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The UK will seek to rent prison space from foreign countries to combat the shortage of domestic jail places, under plans announced at the Conservative party conference.
Under any agreement struck, inmates could be moved to another country provided the facilities, regime and rehabilitation met British standards.
The lord chancellor and justice secretary, Alex Chalk, told the conference: “This government is doing more than any since the Victorian era to expand prison capacity.
“The red warning light of a looming capacity crisis has been flashing on the Prison Service dashboard for a number of months.
They urgently need to bring forward practical plans to reduce pressure on the system, including the executive release of some prisoners.
Shabana Mahmood MP, the shadow justice secretary, said: “There’s no greater symbol of the way in which the Tories have run our criminal justice system into the ground than the fact they are ‘exploring’ putting prisoners in foreign jails because they are incapable of building the prisons places this country needs to keep our people safe.
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