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United Kingdom Creates Foreigner Only Prisons
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2008, page 35
In mid-2007, the United Kingdom (UK) designated two detention facilities to be occupied solely by foreign national prisoners. If the plan is successful, the government intends to expand the practice beyond the Bullwood Hall and Canterbury prisons.
Filed under:
International,
Immigration,
Political Prisoners (International).
Location:
United Kingdom.
The move comes as the proportion of foreign prisoners to English prisoners continues ...
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