Foreign criminals in Britain's jails cost taxpayers almost £630 MILLION per year
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Foreign criminals in Britain's jails cost taxpayers almost £630 MILLION per year.
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Foreign criminals housed in Britain's jails are costing taxpayers almost £630million per year, new analysis by GB News has revealed.
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Around one-in-eight of the total prison population are foreign national offenders, official figures released last week show.Out of the 87,342 prisoners held in British prisons across England and Wales, some 10,487 are foreign nationals.
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With the average cost of a prison place at £60,018, the annual bill for incarcerating foreign offenders has reached the total of £629,408,766.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The sum could pay for around 16,500 police officers or approximately 15,000 NHS nurses, GB News found.The cost of running a prison has also witnessed a 65 per cent surge over the past decade.
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