Sentences with phrase «foreign prisoners»

You need to be very careful in trying to pin the number of foreign prisoners on the current government.

Foreign prisoners held at an open prison are being moved to a more secure place after a number of them walked off, it has emerged.

The centre has a similar level of security to a Category B prison, the second highest level, and was designed to hold 400 male foreign prisoners.

Today the new home secretary gave an update on the row, saying the number of foreign prisoners released without proper assessment was now thought to be 1,019, including four murderers who were now back in prison, and 21 who had gone on to reoffend.

In a new report, the think tanks cites the recent row over foreign prisoners as proof of its argument, saying that although home secretary Charles Clarke lost his job over the inefficiencies in the Home Office, this was unlikely to have any major impact.

Asked about the release of foreign prisoners who should have been considered for deportation, 89 % of respondents thought it amounted to «alarming incompetence».

The Home Office faces more foreign prisoner allegations today as claims emerged that offenders were released from secure hospitals without their knowledge.

Tony Blair made 14 major changes in his reshuffle including Mr Clarke's dismissal, which was widely expected given the row at the Home Office about foreign prisoners released from jail without being considered for deportation.

The government has been urged to review its policy of housing failed asylum seekers with foreign prisoners in the wake of the latest immigration mishap.

The official told AFP that Aine Lesley Davis, like «Jihadi John» a British citizen who guarded foreign prisoners in Syria, was believed to be among several Islamist suspects detained in a swoop in Istanbul and was now being held by the Turkish authorities.

They left us a legacy of spinning, smearing, briefing, back - biting, half - truths and cover - ups, patronising, old - fashioned, top - down, wasteful, centralising, inefficient, ineffective, unaccountable politics, 10p tax and 90 days detention, an election bottled and a referendum denied, gold sold at half price and council tax doubled, bad news buried and Mandelson resurrected, pension funds destroyed and foreign prisoners not deported, Gurkhas kept out and extremist preachers allowed in.

Michael Ellis, a Conservative, says he is concerned by what Theresa May said about the Raab amendment making it harder for foreign prisoners to be deported.

The Home Office faces more foreign prisoner allegations today as claims emerged that offenders were released from secure hospitals without its knowledge.

Meanwhile, CILEx has awarded Saria Bashir, partner at BHB Law, its Pro Bono Award for her work with foreign prisoners at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes.

Davis also raises the possibility of deporting some of the 10,000 foreign prisoners currently serving sentences in British jails and, when asked whether the majority of Conservative MPs are of his view rather than Clarke's, says «I think they are.»

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Opposition politicians have responded to the escape by calling on the government to review its system of detaining foreign prisoners alongside failed asylum seekers.

Mark's detention centre, as well as many others, contains many former foreign prisoners who are transferred ahead of removal.

Mr Clarke insisted that ministers were not made aware that foreign prisoners convicted of serious offences had been released without being considered for deportation until March this year, contrary to suggestions that he had known as early as the summer of 2005.

Today's announcement will only serve to keep the public row over foreign prisoners running and running - something the Home Office has already admitted is making its life very difficult.

But he insisted the move would not be repeated in any other open prisons, as there was no evidence that a similar trend of foreign prisoners absconding existed anywhere else.

She will warn that opting out of a series of EU justice measures would lead to thousands of foreign prisoners remaining in the UK.

Sewing rough - hewn gloves with the other foreign prisoners and living for the day each month when his care package arrives, Mickey soon resolves to escape or die trying.

However, in a nod to the recent row over foreign prisoners being allowed to stay in the UK after their release, she stressed Mr Taylor would «leave or face removal» after serving his sentence.

Opposition MPs have accused the government of incompetence, particularly given the row that is currently taking place in the Home Office about foreign prisoners who should have been deported.

The plans are being drawn up as ministers attempt to tackle a crisis in the immigration system, which has seen illegal workers employed at the Home Office, foreign prisoners released when they should have been deported and claims of corruption among staff.

Foreign prisoners ser ving sentences in England and Wales are to be released early and deported, the government says.

Charles Clarke has today given his version of the events surrounding the failure of the Home Office to deport foreign prisoners at the end of their jail terms, which ultimately led to his sacking.

John Reid admitted earlier today that at least 150 foreign prisoners not considered for deportation had committed very serious offences - almost twice as many as originally admitted.

From Dominic Raab, the Conservative MP who has tabled the amendment limited the ability of foreign prisoners to use the right to a family life to avoid deportation

Immigration officials have «no interest» in deporting thousands of foreign prisoners, a leaked memo shows.

Last year, over 300 foreign prisoners — including killers — successfully avoided deportation by the Home Office after claiming they have a human right to a «family life» in Britain, under Article 8 of the HRA.

A civil servant at the Home Office has been suspended after information on the foreign prisoners row was apparently withheld from the home secretary.

John Reid made the comments after a disastrous few weeks for the Home Office, in which his predecessor was sacked over the foreign prisoners row and the IND was found to have employed illegal immigrants, to name but two of a series of embarrassments.

Staff at Brook House had struggled to control large numbers of foreign prisoners, the centre itself was unsafe and management had not offered enough support to those working there.

... for wasting billions on an NHS IT system that is billions over budget... for failing to reform welfare... for allowing Gordon Brown to impose a record tax burden... for presiding over massive family breakdown... for failing to build enough prisons to stem Britain's rising violent crime... for incompetence in Iraq... for surrendering to Sinn Fein... for ignoring moderate Muslim leaders in Britain... for releasing 1,000 foreign prisoners... for the Millennium Done...

He told MPs that 999 of these foreign prisoners were being considered for deportation and provisional agreement had been reached to deport 788 of them.

Mr Reid was giving evidence to the home affairs select committee just two weeks after taking over from Charles Clarke, who was sacked following the revelation that more than 1,000 foreign prisoners were released without being considered for deportation.

Foreign prisoners, health tourists and benefits claimants all getting a good kicking.