Quit UK deal for foreign criminals

[Chris Melia]

Foreign prisoners are being offered £3,000 to leave Britain, the Government has admitted.

The standard financial reintegration package is £800, but the higher offer has been introduced as the jail population hits record levels.

The "enhanced" incentive is available until the end of next month.

Lin Homer, chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency, said: "We strongly believe foreign lawbreakers should be sent home at the earliest opportunity.

"Every day that we can get these individuals out of the country early saves our taxpayers over £100 a night.

"That's why we want to use the Facilitated Returns Scheme to get as many foreign criminals out of the UK as possible by extending last year's scheme to last until April."

The standard scheme - announced by then Home Secretary John Reid in 2006 as a means of easing the prison overcrowding crisis - offers a package of up to £800 for help with education, training, housing and resettlement.

This is in addition to the £46 discharge grant which prisoners receive on leaving jail.

Between October last year and January this year, the Home Office offered an enhanced package of £1,500 for reintegration assistance.

According to the Home Office, more than 4,200 foreign prisoners were deported last year - 80% more than the previous year. It said the Facilitated Returns Scheme helped achieve that figure.


The latest insanity from our UK leaders.

Still it should help to promote foreign criminals coming on holiday here?
Have a couple of weeks away do a crime collect £3000 ($6000) go home, nice very nice?

Are the lunatics now truly running the asylum?

Regards

Chris.

[Joe T]

Saw this the other day, maybe it sort of explains some of the madness??


Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics?



29 have been accused of spouse abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud

9 have been accused of writing bad cheques

17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3 have done time for assault

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit


14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting


21 are currently defendants in lawsuits


84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year



Which organisation is this?



It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line. And just to top all that they probably have the best "corporate" pension scheme in the country!!