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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
As Britains foreign crimewave continues, shocking new figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request reveal that nearly 1 in 3 youth offenders passing through Feltham Young Offenders Institute were born outside of the UK.
The figures, covering January 2010 until April 2011, revealed that 632 of the approximate 2,000 inmates who passed through the institute during that time were foreign born.
Topping the for table for youth offenders was Somalia, with Somalians making up 9.96% of non-UK offenders.
Romania didn't trail far behind, with 48 inmates, or 7.59%, and Jamaica also featured highly with 41 criminals, or 6.5%.
Afghanistan, Nigeria, Algeria, and Lithuania also featured highly.
Bear in mind that is just one young offenders establishment, the pattern is one that we will see across the nation.
These days it takes rather a lot for people under the age of 18 to be locked up - even if caught - so these figures for those actually incarcerated will represent just the tip of the iceberg of the foreign origin epidemic of youth crime which is blighting Britain.
Not just among youth but among all offenders we are seeing crime rocket thanks to foreign nationals.
Recent figures revealed that 91,234* foreign nationals were arrested in the UK during 2010 for offences which included rape and murder. In 2008 that figure stood at only 51,889 - in 2 short years the number is getting perilously close to doubling.
We saw the price we are paying in the recent riots, we see it daily in gang culture and areas of our land transformed into warzones.
We've a prison population which is standing at record levels - and was before it was swelled even further in the aftermath of the riots - and a nation where we end up paying foreign criminals to leave, a nation where human rights laws trump our nations right to be free of foreign crime.
Our nation labours under the onslaught of the crimewave which is the inevitable result of the multicultural experiment.
Prisons are overcrowded, the cost to the taxpayer is staggering, and the British people deserve better than to watch - and to become victims - as our nation is transformed into a haven for the criminals of the world and becomes rich pickings for criminals from every nation on earth.
*Based on data from only 19 of 52 police forces, actual figure will be higher - Daily Mail
Saturday, July 23, 2011
The figure beats the previous record, 85,395 which was set in October of 2010.
All told, the prison system in England and Wales has the capacity to deal with 88,073 prisoners at any one time. The average cost per prisoner is £47,000 per year according to figures published by the BBC in March 2011.
With that cost and prison populations fast approaching full capacity it is no wonder that Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary, has been looking hard at way to reduce the numbers of people going to prison/how long a sentence they serve.
Never mind the law abiding British public of course, they can deal with increasing crime rates, prisoners released earlier than normal or serving shorter sentences, and a perfect storm that will see cutbacks to police services meaning less bobbies on the beat.
However ConDem reduce prison populations we'll be the ones who suffer, it's inevitable.
What is really interesting, and thanks to TheyWorkForYou.com for recording all this, is a recent exchange from 28 June in the House of Commons which touches upon the subject of prison populations and the origins of prisoners.
James Grey, Conservative, North Wiltshire - "It is laudable that the total number of foreign nationals in prison has gone down since Labour left office from 11,000 to 10,000, but does the Minister agree that that is 10,000 too many? Is it not time we sent the whole lot of them home?"
Nick Herbert, Minister of State, Justice, Arundel and South Downs, Conservative - "....we want to make greater progress and that is why we have set out provisions in the sentencing Bill on, for example, conditional cautions, which will be available as an alternative disposal to remove foreign national prisoners in some circumstances if they agree not to return for a period of time. The question of whether foreign national prisoners could serve their sentences abroad relies on the consent of other countries. We are attempting to negotiate more agreements, but even if we no longer need the consent of the offender, we cannot remove them without the consent of the country that receives them."
There's a simple and clear statement there. 10,000 of those prisoners, around 1 in 8, is a foreign prisoner. Any idea why our prisons are overcrowded now?
And, bear in mind, that 10,000 will just be foreign nationals - not including the vast amount of foreigners who have been handed British citizenship thanks to our give away British nationality to nearly anyone who asks policy.
We can easily see that a large percentage of our prison population is occupied by foreign nationals, and we can assume that another large segment is populated by foreigners who have been given UK citizenship.
With prison places running low, and at £47,000 a year to keep them in prison, how much is that costing us overall? You do the maths, and bear in mind that there are more than just the prison costs to count. It's a big burden on many aspects of our finances and our society as a whole.
At a stroke, simply by recovering control of our borders, and by removing insane human rights legislation which means we cannot revoke citizenship/deport someone even if they are a career criminal who ends up in prison again and again, we could go a long way towards reducing the prison population to manageable levels and save the British taxpayer having to bear an enormous burden imposed by foreign criminals.
