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Daily Stormer
August 18, 2014
Instead of wasting tax payers money on interpreters they should just be kicking these people out of the country. If they are not capable of speaking our language and they have broken the law, then they should not even be here in the first place. Rights come with responsibilities and the first responsibility should be to actually be able to communicate in the language those rights were formulated in.
Prisons have spent almost £1million hiring interpreters for the burgeoning population of foreign criminals in British jails.
New figures for jails in England and Wales show that interpreters were needed 14,138 times last year.
Twelve per cent of prisoners in English and Welsh jails are foreign, with Polish, Irish and Jamaican inmates the most common.
Each interpreter visit can cost the taxpayer as much as £1,200, leading to claims the cost of the justice system could ‘spiral out of control’, the Sun reported.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures were brought to light by a Parliamentary question from Labour MP Jim Cunningham.
They showed that the MoJ spent £994,000 on the visit. But HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire made 148 call-outs, with a total cost of £182,180.50 – £1,230.95 a time.
In the same period of time, HMP Manchester called them out 635 times, costing £50,444.73, which equates to £79.44 per visit.
A TaxPayers’ Alliance spokesman said: ‘Everyone deserves access to justice, but costs can’t spiral out of control.
‘It doesn’t make sense that some prisons are costing nearly £200,000 for fewer interpreters than one spending £50,000.’
