UK signs deal to send Jamaican prisoners home
From:Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon David Cameron MP First published:30 September 2015Part of:Jamaica
An agreement between the UK and Jamaica allows Jamaican prisoners serving time in British prisons to return home.
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More than 300 Jamaican prisoners serving time in British jails will be returned back to Jamaica to serve their sentence under an agreement signed by the UK and Jamaica today.
The agreement was concluded today after years of negotiations as the Prime Minister made the first visit by a UK Prime Minister to Jamaica in 14 years.
It is expected to save British taxpayers around £10 million over 30 years once the first prisoners are returned from 2020 onwards.
The UK will provide £25 million from the government’s existing aid budget to help fund the construction of a new 1500 bed prison in Jamaica, overcoming one of the sticking points in the negotiations which had been the conditions in existing prisons in Jamaica. The prison is expected to be built by 2020 and from then returns will get underway.
Welcoming the agreement, the Prime Minister said:
It is absolutely right that foreign criminals who break our laws are properly punished but this shouldn’t be at the expense of the hardworking British taxpayer.
That’s why this agreement is so important. It will mean Jamaican criminals are sent back home to serve their sentences, saving the British taxpayer millions of pounds but still ensuring justice is done.
And it will help Jamaica, by helping to provide a new prison – strengthening their criminal justice system.
While the UK has Prisoner Transfer Agreements with a number of countries, the new deal with Jamaica is an important step forward because Jamaicans account for the third largest group of foreign national offenders in UK prisons.
And di pulling of di shades ovah di yei continues…smdh
Mi wudda like fi know weh di whole heap a ppl deh weh did a March an seh free world boss? An weh di whole heap a Dem weh did ready fi die fi Dudus? How politicians a make dem f**kry move yah an nobody naa riot?
This is discrimination and a slap in the face to Jamaica and Jamaicans. I’m very certain they’re lots other foreign prisoners in the UK. I’m also certain the the UK government would never and could never suggest this mess to any other country. But the Jamaican government is licky licky so Portia jumps on this opportunity without. Hearing the voices of the Jamaican people. Now once again Jamaica is the laughing stock of the world. The good pays for the bad.
It is absolutely right that foreign criminals who break our laws are properly punished but this shouldn’t be at the expense of the hardworking British taxpayer!!
SO HOLD DEH IT SHOULD BE AT EXPENSE OF HARDWORKING JAMAICAN TAXPAYERS!!
PLUS THEM NEVER BREAK ANY JAMAICAN LAWS SO ITS ONLY RIGHT THEM DO DEM TIME WHERE THEM BREAK THE LAW
Every time I see this nonsense it hurt me. Jamaica really gone to the dog. Mek mi see how she a guh fund the balance. Jamaican ppl mi sorry fa. How can somebody who never did a crime in a country go to jail in that country. USA next fi mek a offer.