U.K. Accelerating Efforts to Move Foreign Prisoners

On October 24, 2007, Douglas Alexander, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Official Spokesman, reported that Britain is accelerating its efforts to transfer and deport foreign prisoners, including signing a “limited prisoner transfer agreement” with Jamaica in June. Britain is also negotiating prisoner transfer agreements with Nigeria, China, and Vietnam. Last September British legislation removed the right of foreign prisoners to object to serving the rest of their sentences in their home countries.… [more]