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December 18, 2013
Prisons are letting out foreign criminals with little or no effort to reform them – because officials wrongly assume they will be deported.
A highly critical report by prison and probation inspectors found that jails across England and Wales helped inmates get a house and benefits or a job on their release.
But little was being done to help turn them away from a life of crime. The problem was worst in prisons holding foreign nationals, said the report, because officials thought inmates would be deported during or after their sentence.
But many could not be kicked out, meaning they were freed without a proper assessment of how dangerous they were.
The report said: ‘Levels of some services, including offender management and resettlement, were said to be predicated on the assumption that prisoners would be deported.
‘In fact, significant numbers of prisoners were being released into UK communities with little or no preparation.’
Two prisons, HMP Canterbury and Bullwood Hall in Essex, were heavily criticised for failures to ‘assess and manage the risk of harm to others’.
HMP Canterbury had let out 15 prisoners a month in the two months prior to the inspection, and Bullwood Hall 78 in six months. The inspectors said that probation staff ‘rarely had contact with prisoners’, even those they were supposed to be helping.
Overall, the report was scathing about the Offender Management system in prisons, which was set up nearly a decade ago.
