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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
Filed under: International, Immigration, Political Prisoners (International). Location: United Kingdom.
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.

The move comes as the proportion of foreign prisoners to English prisoners continues …

 

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