Shouldn't This Despicable Drug Smuggler Have Been Made To Serve Out The Rest Of Her Sentence Here In Britain?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3655230/Peru-Two-drug-mule-Melissa-Reid-arrives-Britain-spending-three-years-jail-smuggling-1-5million-cocaine.html

Or have the Peruvians got it right, and perhaps we should follow their lead and send the foreign criminals who are in our own crowded jails, back to their countries?

[fiction-factory]

Good question.
Do you know how many foreign criminals are in our prisons?

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

Far too many.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-191372/Foreign-inmates-outnumber-Britons.html

[CrapAtCryptics]

She should serve out the balance of her time here.

[fiction-factory]

Too many? Is that 100? 100000?
Your link gives me a blank page so apologies if the figure is in there. It just looks to me to be about a particular establishment though.

[hc4361]

If she had been sentenced to six years in the UK she'd be released by now anyway.

[hc4361]

Foreign prisoners make up 14% of the prison population in the UK
https://www.justice.gov.uk/offenders/types-of-offender/foreign

"23,000 foreign offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010 and more than 600 under the 'deport first, appeal later' provisions, with many more being processed through the system. The grounds on which criminals can appeal against deportation have been cut."
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2015-03-18.228237.h

[youngmafbog]

No, she should have served tge full term out there. Mind looking at her their jails cant be too bad #chunky.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks hc. As that relates to England & Wales I wonder if Scots and Irish are counted as foreign nationals.
14% does seem very high

[youngmafbog]

The scottish soon will be.

[retrocop]

ymfb
Not unless the Scots stab England in the back which,today, is highly likely!!

[TonyV]

I thought it was Normal in this country to get 50% of sentence
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[ummmm]

Tony....That depends on the sentence.

[anotheoldgit]

It does seem that there is a problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/24/rise-proportion-black-ethnic-minority-young-prisoners-stop-and-search

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1563890/Foreigners-commit-fifth-of-crime-in-London.html

[fiction-factory]

of course there could be 2 separate issues as one articles refers to black and ethnic minority youngsters (who could be mainly British) and one relates to foreign nationals (who are, well foreign, but could be largely white)

[sp1814]

Yes AOG. But what is the origin of the problem? Could it be this, from the story you linked to?

[i]BME offenders are more likely to receive custodial sentences than their white counterparts, even for the same crime – suggesting a degree of institutional racism in the courts.[i]

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

If you are going to select a certain segment of text, please can you print the whole of it rather than just a convenient selected piece?

*** 'CAMPAIGNERS ALSO CLAIM THAT' BME offenders are more likely to receive custodial sentences than their white counterparts, even for the same crime – suggesting a degree of institutional racism in the courts. ***

Well campaigners would say that, wouldn't they?

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

/// of course there could be 2 separate issues as one articles refers to black and ethnic minority youngsters (who could be mainly British) and one relates to foreign nationals (who are, well foreign, but could be largely white) ///

What colour has got to do with it, I just do not know.

The Telegraph's table doesn't differentiate so I don't know why you should?

It is titled, "Top 20 nationalities of foreign criminals in London", top of the list Poland, closely followed by Jamaica, and then 18 more countries of varying skin tones.

[webbo3]

I expect she will sell her story and be on celebrity BB.



Dave.

[jambutty]

YES she should have !

[sp1814]

AOG

What the campaigners have claimed is actually true.

Black people are more likely to receive jail terms for the same offences that white people commit.

So the question should be - why?

Do you think there is inbuilt racism within the criminal justice system, or is this statistical anomaly due to something else?