Foreign prisoners

• howard mcsweeney1

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  9 November 2011     12:56135703
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  this will answer questions that members have been asking on here about sending back our visiting criminals.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059212/Ken-Clarke-admits-single-overseas-prisoner-deported-coalition-came-power.html
• Guest 653

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  9 November 2011     18:02135747
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  Pretty poor performance - O.K. there may be many reasons/excuses, but it's still disgraceful.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 715

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  9 November 2011     19:07135758
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  Pre election talk is cheap, when given the chance to right the wrongs nothing happens!! 18 months in to their term now!!
  Audere est facere.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  9 November 2011     19:47135768
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  quite so, the agreement in place since 2007 stresses that no country can refuse to take back their miscreants.
  
  i can see absolutely no reason why they are not escorted back to the airport or customs point in their own country and just left there.
• Guest 698

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  9 November 2011     20:40135773
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  Howard, because there is no compulsion on the receiving nation to bang them up when they get there - unless the aforementioned agreements are concluded.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• howard mcsweeney1

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  9 November 2011     21:14135776
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  two different issues peter, i am thinking more about those that have completed their sentences.
  
  i can understnd countries not wanting them back but they have no say on the matter.
• Guest 653

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  10 November 2011     08:33135809
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  I understood that was not actually the case and that is why no real progress has been made - the countries concerned don't have to take them back and because these are "miscreants" as Howard calls them, they don't want them either.
  
  I'd like to know the facts on this. I also think that foreign prisoners (foreign nationals) should serve their sentence in their own country.
  
  There should never be a case of not knowing which country they come from because as soon as they come here, it should/must be stated where they come from - otherwise they're not allowed to come here to live and/or work.
  
  If they came into Dover, they came from France, if they came by plane, they'll know where that flew from, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
  
  They should also be told that if they commit any offence whilst living and working here, they will be returned to that country after being found guilty, to serve their sentence.
  
  
  
  
  Roger