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Hard times are indeed hitting all, why even the poor overseas offenders payment to return to their home countries once they had served their sentences has been slashed from £5,000 to £1,500.
The original scheme introduced of course by the last Labour Government was intended to prevent inmates launching lengthy and expensive legal battles against deportation.
Why not scrap this ridiculous scheme and at the same time make it far to expensive personally for them to launch lengthy and expensive legal battles, and then just chuck them out.