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Press releasesREF: PR/54/07 DATE: 24th October 2007 To: ALL POLITICAL PRESS RELEASE Crisis in Prisons ContinuesFurther pressure is mounting on the new Labour as they fail to deal with the current population of foreign national prisoners. Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has promised to deport foreign national prisoners at the end of their current sentence or during their prison sentence and the Conservative Opposition believe that he has broken that promise. Prisons in England and Wales currently hold approximately 11,000 foreign national prisoners. HMP Canterbury and HMP Bullwood Hall have been identified as two prisons that are currently holding only foreign national prisoners as part of an experiment to speed up deportation procedures. Colin Moses National Chairman of the POA said: “With the ever increasing pressure on our under resourced prisons in England and Wales, the POA believe that all foreign national prisoners should be repatriated to their homes to served their sentences at the earliest opportunity. This would ease the pressure on our overcrowded and under staffed prisons. “This experiment at Bullwood Hall and Canterbury is drawing resources from the rest of the prison service that could be better used, but the problems that foreign national prisoners bring, leads to additional resources being required. The cost to the tax payer to hold foreign national prisoners is vast and we call on the Government to take immediate action to address this problem”.
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