Foreign prisoners are now costing British taxpayers more than £1 million per day, official figures have revealed.
New data by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has revealed around 10,500 foreign prisoners are being held in prisons across England and Wales, each costing more than £50,000 a year.
Around 12 percent of all inmates in the UK are foreign nationals.
Among the nationalities with the most inmates in the UK, Albanians lead the unwanted league table with more than 1,200 prisoners. Poles are in second with 911, followed by Romanians (729), Irish (634) and Jamaicans (370).
About half of those inmates have been convicted while the other 50 percent are being held on remand either because they are considered to be too dangerous to release or because they are deemed a flight risk.
A Freedom of Information request seen by The Telegraph revealed violent crime was most common among prisoners from Poland, with 215. While Romanians were most likely to be involved with sex crimes, with 88 prisoners.
Ireland topped the table for robbery (80) and theft (11) while Albanians were most likely to be incarcerated for drug crimes, with 439 held on these charges, four times more than any other nationality.
The MoJ has committed to spending £5 million on new frontline immigration staff to accelerate the removal of foreign prisoners.
They plan to work across 80 prisons to remove some foreign offenders, to lower the elevated costs and free up spaces in Britain’s already overcrowded prisons.
This new unit will be operating by April 1 and will also help the Home Office to identify and handle those going through the immigration process, deporting prisoners up to 18 months before the end of their custodial sentence.
Labour says it has removed more than 2,500 foreign criminals since last July.
Prisons minister Lord James Timpson said: ‘It cannot be right for British taxpayers to foot the bill for jailing foreign criminals who have brought misery to our communities.
‘Under this Government, removals are up by nearly 20 percent. We’re now taking action to ensure this is done swifter, easing pressure on overcrowded prisons and on the public purse.
‘This is part of our Plan for Change – fixing the broken prison system we inherited and keeping our streets safe.’
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said removing foreign criminals from prisons should be a priority and argued that countries who refuse to take them back should be blacklisted for migrants wishing to enter the UK from that country.
Mr Jenrick said: ‘That is the number one thing we can do to free up prison capacity. And how do you do that? Use every lever of the British state to put pressure on those other countries to take back their own criminals.
‘Do things like stopping issuing visas, don’t give foreign aid to those countries. If they won’t take back their criminals, we shouldn’t be supporting them.’
As previously reported, foreign nationals are up to three times more likely to be arrested than Brits in regions of the country, according to data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
In Cambridgeshire, of the more than 21,200 arrests made between 2021 and 2023, almost 8,800 (41.5 percent) were not UK citizens. This is despite them comprising just 15 percent of the local population.
Foreign nationals living in the UK are three times more likely than British citizens to be arrested on suspicion of a crime, according to statistics from Cambridgeshire Police, which serves places including Cambridge and Peterborough.
In the county, the average annual arrest rate for foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023 was 21.5 per 1,000 population. In comparison, MailOnline analysis suggests the equivalent rate for Brits was 6.5 per 1,000.
Last year, surprising data from MoJ revealed that foreign criminals who evaded deportation carried out more than 10,000 offences in a year.
According to the data, about 25 percent of foreign offenders committed another crime after being released from prison or receiving a court order.
The 3,235 criminals who were released from prison without being deported were behind 10,012 crimes in the year to March 2022 – a rise of 25 percent on the last annual total of 8,021.
Over the last four years of data – released by officials in a parliamentary question – foreign criminals were guilty of 40,000 offences ranging from robbery and drug dealing to murder.
As well as criminals who were released from prison and evaded deportation, the MOJ data also includes people who were previously deported before returning to Britain illegally.
All of them ought to be sent back to their own countries to fulfil their sentences. They are not helping our nation and are cluttering up prisons, costing us a fortune.
Since the human rights of law-abiding, innocent people should come before those of criminals, our government should take away their opportunity to appeal deportation.
Unfortunately, we are no longer the UK; instead, we are a hub for criminals from other countries.
If these foreign nationals have committed a crime and should be expelled, no excuses.
I have had enough of paying taxes to all the jerks from every other nation. Our government needs to take care of its own citizens, but it’s so easy to waste other people’s money, isn’t it?
All our politicians need to be locked up because they’re all traitors to this country!
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